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A dance engagements card in the form of a fan for 11 January 1887, showing a list of all the dances for the evening – valse , polka, lancers, and quadrille; opposite each dance is a space to record the name of the partner for that dance. After the event the card was probably kept as a souvenir of the evening. A dance card is typically a ...
The Schuhplattler is a traditional style of folk dance popular in the Eastern Alps, specifically originating in Upper Bavaria, Tyrol, and Salzburg. In this dance, the performers stomp, clap, and strike the soles of their shoes ( Schuhe ), thighs, and knees with their hands held flat ( platt ). The more than 150 basic Schuhplattlers, as well as ...
The number of different names for the same dance should not be surprising, as the dance is older than the modern German language. Neither should one be surprised that the tunes themselves have multiple names. One German dance researcher, Felix Hoerburger, catalogued 112 different Zwiefacher tunes with 474 different names.
The Ländler ( German pronunciation: [ˈlɛntlɐ]) is a folk dance in 3. 4 time which was popular in Austria, Bavaria, German Switzerland, and Slovenia [citation needed] at the end of the 18th century. It is a partner dance that strongly features hopping and stamping. It might be purely instrumental or have a vocal part, sometimes featuring ...
Three German Dances. The Grosse Redoutensaal (Grand Ballroom) of the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna; this is where the Three German Dances were intended to have been performed. [1] Three German Dances, K. 605, is a set of three dance pieces composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in February 1791 in Vienna.
On 16 November 1832, the brothers Bernhard and Otto Bechstein, in the residential town of the Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg, had been granted permission to manufacture German and French playing cards in the name of the Duchy and the Ducal Saxon Altenburg Playing Card Company (Herzogliche Sächsische Altenburger Concessionierte Spielkartenfabrik) was founded.
Pages in category "German folk dances". The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
German electronic dance music musicians (4 C, 2 P) G. German dance music groups (4 C, 58 P) Pages in category "German dance musicians" The following 32 pages ...