Riepel’s music dictionary published in Germany in 1752. This term appears for the first time in J.
The name is much younger than the dance itself, and probably originated outside of the region. These dances are linked by common rhythmic and choreographic traits, especially the mazurka rhythm discussed below. The dances, known abroad as mazurkas, comprise more than one type: mazur or mazurek, the obertas or oberek, and the kujawiak from the neighboring district of Kujawy (see PMC entries on oberek and kujawiak). The people of the province were called Mazurs thus, the dance mazur bears the same name as the male inhabitant of the region. small mazur), or in English mazurka, are general terms for a series of Polish folk dances in triple meter, which originated in the plains of Mazovia around Warsaw.
Essay by Maja Trochimczyk Zofia Stryjeńska, 1927.
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