The Špacírka is a moderately fast

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n dance in time. The dance starts out slowly with the dancer(s) walking; it is from this that the dance got its name: in Czech "''špacírovat''" (coming from the German word ''Spazieren'') means "to walk around." The dance was used by some Czech composers, for example

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in his '' Slavonic Dances'', with the Špacírka as the fifth dance from opus 72.

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