polonaise
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
polonaise , Polish national dance, in moderate 3-4 time and of slow, stately movements. It evolved from peasant and court processions and ceremonies of the late 16th cent. and was later used by J. S. and W. F. Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt. Chopin, exiled from Poland, expressed his patriotic fervor in 13 polonaises.
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