| 单词 |
polacca |
| 释义 |
▪ I. ‖ polacca1
(pəʊˈlækə, ‖ poˈlakka)
[It., orig. adj. fem. of polacco Polish, ad. Ger. Polack, a. Pol. Polak a Pole, a native of Poland.]
A Polish dance, a polonaise; also the music for it. Also applied more widely to other music of a (supposed) Polish character. Also attrib. and in phr. alla polacca.
1806T. Busby Dict. Mus. (ed. 2) Polacca, a Polish movement of three crochets in a bar, chiefly characterised by its emphasis being laid on the fifth quaver of the bar. c1807W. Crotch Specimens Various Styles Music I. 10 Some modern composers have given the title Polacca to movements which would sound very foreign to the ear of a Polander. 1812J. M. Williams Dramatic Censor 41 Master Byrne and Miss Smith executed a pas de deux (a polacca) in the second act. 1813Sk. Character (ed. 2) I. 222 Maria had brought home some new music, and was in the middle of a favorite Polacca, when Gifford entered. 1862E. Pauer Programme 8 Mar., Polacca, Polonaise. A Polish dance in {threeon4} time; its character is strictly solemn and dignified, and must express chivalrous firmness, combined with grace. 1898Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms s.v., In No. 3 of Handel's twelve grand concertos is a polonaise or polacca. 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) VI. 836/1 Polaccas may be defined as polonaises treated in a denationalized manner, but still retaining much of the rhythm characteristic of their Polish origin. Ibid. 836/2 Instrumental movements with the tempo indication alla polacca also occur. 1970W. Apel Harvard Dict. Mus. 683/2 The ‘Polacca’ in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no. 1 shows hardly any affinity to the polonaise. 1975Gramophone July 174/2 In the finale with its polacca rhythms, and particularly in the obviously Slavonic episodes.., the Broadwood does increasingly suggest a Hungarian cymbalom.
▪ II. polacca2
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