dumkan.
/ˈdʊmkə//ˈduːmkə/ Music.
An alternately melancholy and gay piece of music, found chiefly in the work of Slavonic composers.
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tinternel1573
aubade1678
nome1705
accompaniment1728
potboiler1783
raga1789
elegy1808
improvisation1824
pièce d'occasion1830
morceau de salon1854
tum-tum1859
murky1876
test-piece1876
invention1880
monodia1880
serenata1883
monody1887
dumka1895
incidental number1904
a cappella1905
folk-tune1907
realization1911
nosebleeder1921
show tune1927
sicilienne1927
estampie1937
ballad1944
Siciliana1947
hard rocker1957
rabble-rouser1958
display1959
mobile1961
soundscape1968
grower1973
lounge1978
1886 A. Dvorák (title) Dumka a Furiant.]
1895 W. H. Hadow Stud. Mod. Mus. 2nd Ser. 221 Even more distinctive is his [sc. Dvořák's] treatment of the Dumka or ‘Elegy’, a complex form which, like a sonnet-sequence, holds in combination a series of separate poems.
1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era xvii. 302 Dvořák was less regionally limited than Smetana; although he still wrote polkas, dumkas, and furiants, he also wrote waltzes and mazurkas.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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