However, the bright mood is tempered by an aristocratic, even prim, reserve. Share, download and print free sheet music for piano, guitar, flute and more with the worlds largest community of sheet music creators, composers. Interestingly, this work lacks the seemingly ubiquitous tinges of regret and wistfulness that one hears in much of Chopin's music, even the happier works. The main theme of this Contredanse is conjures up, in a most attractive manner, the atmosphere of happy leisure. It is a French dance that dates to the late-eighteenth century, probably having been imported from England, where it was called "country dance." Chopin, a student at the Warsaw Conservatory when he wrote this work, always had a predilection for things French - long before he became an exile in Paris - since his father was French. Its general characteristics, as they relate to this particular genre, are easy to understand: while the contredanse involved many intricate steps, it was more elegant than fast-paced for the couples who faced each other to perform its broad range of movements.
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