Basic Form Questions

[soliloquy]

Difference between Polonaise and March?

and

a harder one

term for complex stochastic glissando system?

[pianistimo]

don't think there's much of a dif.  maybe the polonaise is just a polish march?

as for the last one, you got me.  i'll take a guess.  a spastic person trying to play a glissando - going from slow to fast or fast to slow.  'arbitrary' (or maybe that's the way it's supposed to be?)  now i'm going to google this.

[alzado]

I thought a polonaise was a type of dance, a bit like a waltz or a samba or a foxtrot.

[crazy for ivan moravec]

polonaise is a stately dance of the polish. it is in a moderate triple meter, so i would guess that it's not a march (i could be wrong). the steps are simple, as i saw a masterclass of reynaldo reyes, he danced it.

mazurka on the other hand is the dance for the gyspsies.

that's why the polonaise should be much more elegant when played while mazurka is more rhythmic, eccentric, and passionate. (IMO)

[pianistimo]

guess you're right.  i was just thinking of the 'military' polonaise, i guess.  sorry about the error.  this should be a 'cash cab' question.  (i hate getting questions wrong).

sometimes you learn something and know it for awhile and then forget it.  in fact, i think there was another thread about chopin that we were discussing the different forms of polish music.  have to go back and read it again to make sure that i'm not off on 'mars' when i talk about marching to triple time.

why does the military polonaise sound like the rhythm is in two.  it only follows the right foot pattern in marching?  help.