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czardas

noun

A piece of music composed for the Hungarian Csárdás dance.

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7
Starts with
C
Ends with
S
Contains
ZA
Scrabble score
19

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noun

  1. A piece of music composed for the Hungarian Csárdás dance.

    “The Csárdás is characterized by a variation in tempo: it starts out slowly (lassú) and ends in a very fast tempo (friss, literally ‘fresh’).”

noun

  1. A piece of music in the rhythm of the Hungarian Csárdás dance.

    “Classical composers who have used csárdás themes in their works include Emmerich Kálmán, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Léo Delibes, Johann Strauss, Pablo de Sarasate, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and others.”

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The Csárdás is characterized by a variation in tempo: it starts out slowly (lassú) and ends in a very fast tempo (friss, literally ‘fresh’).
Classical composers who have used csárdás themes in their works include Emmerich Kálmán, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Léo Delibes, Johann Strauss, Pablo de Sarasate, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and others.

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