Dumka (musical genre)
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Dumka is a musical term introduced from the Ukrainian language, with cognates in other Slavic languages. The word dumka literally means "thought". Originally, it was the diminutive form of the Ukraini
Jarema's dumka (1879), a painting by Stanisław Masłowski in the National Museum in Warsaw.
Slavonic Dances
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The Slavonic Dances are a series of 16 orchestral pieces composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1878 and 1886 and published in two sets as Op. 46 and Op. 72 respectively. Originally written for piano four hand
Dumka (musical genre)
…exuberance". Though dumky are generally characterized by a gently plodding, dreamy duple rhythm, many examples are in triple metre, including Dvořák's Slavonic dance (Op. 72 No. 4). His last and best-known piano trio, No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90, has six movements, each of which is a dumka; the work is often referred to by its subtitle…
The title page of the first series of Slavonic Dances with Dvořák's dedication to Mr. Wassman