Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances

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• “Polovtsy” was a Russian name for a Turkic people group.¹
• Borodin based the Polovtsian music in Prince Igor on the style of actual folk music from Arabia and Turkey, roughly the geographical regions of the real “Polovtsians.”²

1. “Polovtsy,” Encyclopedia of Russian History, Encyclopedia.com, accessed August 5, 2019,  https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/polovtsy.
2. Taruskin, “Prince Igor,” Grove Music Online.