also spelled Csardas, Hungarian Csrds national dance of Hungary. A courting dance for couples, it begins with a slow section (lassu), followed by an exhilarating fast section (friss). The individual dancers carry themselves proudly and improvise on a simple fundamental step, their feet snapping inward and outward, the couples whirling. The music, often played by a Gypsy orchestra, is in 2/4 or 4/4 time with compelling, syncopated rhythms. The czardas developed in the 19th century from an earlier folk dance, the magyar kr. A ballroom dance adapted from the czardas is popular in eastern Europe. A theatrical czardas with complicated Slavic and Hungarian folk-dance steps appears in ballet, as in Lo Delibes's Copplia. Franz Liszt, in his Hungarian Rhapsodies, wrote music reminiscent of the czardas.
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Meaning of CZARDAS in English
Britannica English vocabulary. Английский словарь Британика. 2012