Lassan (music)

For the town in Germany, see Lassan, Germany.
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Lassan (Hungarian for "slowly") or more properly lassú ("slow") is the slow section of the csárdás, a Hungarian folk dance, or of most of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies, which take their form from this dance.[1][2] It generally either has a dark, somber tone or a formal, stately one.

  1. ^ Horn, David (2017-10-05). Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 11: Genres: Europe. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 182. ISBN 978-1-5013-2610-3.
  2. ^ Piotrowska, Anna G. (2013-12-03). Gypsy Music in European Culture: From the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries. Northeastern University Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-1-55553-837-8.