Skočná is a rapid Slavic folk-dance, normally in metre. Czech composers
Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravian traditional music, Moravia and his native Bohemia, following t ...
and
Bedřich Smetana used this dance, the latter in the third act of ''
The Bartered Bride'' where it is danced by a circus troupe and is often known as the Dance of the Comedians. Dvořák's 5th, 7th and 11th ''
Slavonic Dances'' are in the form of the skočná.
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European folk dances
Dance forms in classical music
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