Tropak, the Glossary
Tropak (трoпак) or trepak (трeпак; тріпак) is a traditional Russian and Ukrainian folk dance.[1]
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21 relations: Choreography, Cossacks, Dominant (music), Duple and quadruple metre, Folk dance, Glossary of music terminology, Hopak, Modest Mussorgsky, Music genre, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Rhythm, Russian folk dance, So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 4, Social dance, Songs and Dances of Death, Syncopation, The Nutcracker, Tonic (music), Trepak (The Nutcracker), Ukrainian dance, Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky).
- Russian folk dances
- Ukrainian folk dances
Choreography
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified.
Cossacks
The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic Orthodox Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia.
Dominant (music)
In music, the dominant is the fifth scale degree of the diatonic scale.
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Duple and quadruple metre
Duple metre (or Am. duple meter, also known as duple time) is a musical metre characterized by a primary division of 2 beats to the bar, usually indicated by 2 and multiples (simple) or 6 and multiples (compound) in the upper figure of the time signature, with (cut time),, and (at a fast tempo) being the most common examples.
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Folk dance
A folk dance is a dance that reflects the life of the people of a certain country or region.
Glossary of music terminology
A variety of musical terms are encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes.
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Hopak
Hopak (гопа́к) is a Ukrainian folk dance originating as a male dance among the Zaporozhian Cossacks, but later danced by couples, male soloists, and mixed groups of dancers. Tropak and Hopak are Ukrainian folk dances.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (In his day, the name was written Модестъ Петровичъ Мусоргскій.|Modest Petrovich Musorgsky|mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj|Ru-Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky version.ogg; –) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five".
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Music genre
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period.
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Rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".
Russian folk dance
Russian folk dance (Русский народный танец) is an important part of Russian culture. Tropak and Russian folk dance are Russian folk dances.
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So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series) season 4
So You Think You Can Dance is a United States television reality program and dance competition airing on the Fox Broadcasting Company network.
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Social dances are dances that have social functions and context.
Songs and Dances of Death
Songs and Dances of Death (Песни и пляски смерти, Pesni i plyaski smerti) is a song cycle for voice (usually bass or bass-baritone) and piano by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, written in the mid-1870s, to poems by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov, a relative of the composer.
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Syncopation
In music, syncopation is a variety of rhythms played together to make a piece of music, making part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat.
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker (Щелкунчикъ in Russian pre-revolutionary orthography spelling|Shchelkunchik), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination.
Tonic (music)
In music, the tonic is the first scale degree of the diatonic scale (the first note of a scale) and the tonal center or final resolution tone that is commonly used in the final cadence in tonal (musical key-based) classical music, popular music, and traditional music.
Trepak (The Nutcracker)
Trepak (Трепак; Трoпак or Трiпак), also referred to as the Russian dance, is one of the character dances from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's famous 1892 ballet The Nutcracker.
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Ukrainian dance
Ukrainian dance (Український тaнeць, translit. Ukrainskyi tanets) mostly refers to the traditional folk dances of the Ukrainians as an ethnic group, but may also refer to dances originating from the multiple other ethnic groups within Ukraine. Tropak and Ukrainian dance are Ukrainian folk dances.
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Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky)
The Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 was the only concerto for violin composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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See also
Russian folk dances
- Barynya
- Kamarinskaya
- Khorovod
- Metelitsa
- Russian folk dance
- Troika (dance)
- Tropak
- Tsyganochka
- Yablochko
Ukrainian folk dances
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropak
Also known as Trepak, Trepak (folk dance).