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Galop Dance Pattern
In dance, the galop, named after the fastest running gait of a horse (see Horse gait#Gallop, Gallop), a shortened version of the original term galoppade, is a lively country dance, introduced in the late 1820s to Parisian society by the Princess Caroline Ferdinande of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchesse de Berry and popular in Vienna, Berlin and London. In the same closed position familiar in the waltz, the step combined a glissade (dance move), glissade with a chassé on alternate feet, ordinarily in a fast time. The galop was a forerunner of the polka, which was introduced in Prague ballrooms in the 1830s and made fashionable in Paris when Raab, a dancing teacher of Prague, danced the polka at the Odéon Theatre in 1840. In Australian bush dance, the dance is often called galopede. An even livelier, faster version of the galop called the can-can developed in Paris around 1830. The galop was particularly popular as the final dance of the evening. The "Post horn#Post Horn Galop, Pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strauss I - Wiener Scene - Der Große Galop
Strauss, Strauß or Straus is a common German language, Germanic surname. Outside Germany and Austria ''Strauß'' is always spelled ''Strauss'' (the letter "ß" is not used in the German-speaking part of Switzerland). In classical music, "Strauss" usually refers to Richard Strauss or Johann Strauss II. The name has been used by families in the Germanic area for at least a thousand years. The overlord of Gröna, for example, went by the name of Struz and used the image of an ostrich as his symbol. Examples of it could still be seen on the thousand-year-old church bell of that town. "Struz" or "Strutz" is the North-German form of the word "Strauss", which is the modern German word for ostrich. Some of the earliest Jewish bearers of the name hailed from the Judengasse in medieval Frankfurt, where families have been known by the name of the houses they inhabited. All the houses had names and these included Haus Strauss, complete with an image of an ostrich on the façade. When, fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
