The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #24168   Message #274647
Posted By: Burke
09-Aug-00 - 07:11 PM
Thread Name: Donegal Mazurka
Subject: RE: Donegal Mazurka
Mazurkas are from Poland but the Scandinavian Pols/Polska/Hambo has pretty much the same kind of tempo, feel. They are 3/4 but not the same as a waltz. One can Hambo to a Mazurka.

Polska is rooted in the term Polish. The Scandinavians & others had a way of creating dances that were their idea of a dance elsewhere. They probably stole the rhythm & put their own steps to it. The schottische is another, proportedly Scottish but really continental. I understand the Polka did not originate in Poland either.