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The bugle call sounds from the tower of St. Mary's

              SCENE                                                                                  Church on the Krakow Market Square. Cracovian

                                                                                                     women walk around the Market Square, dance


                                                                                                     Krakowiak. Suddenly, they run away startled by
              NO. 3                                                                                  the Dragon's terrifying roar.






                                                                                                           musical folk melody "Hej na Krakowski Rynek"


                                                                                                           - piano accompaniment)




                                                                                                      A group of girls in folk costume "walks around the

                                                                                                     Market Square". Then they perform Krakowiak


                                                                                                     dance, in which basic steps and dance figures are

                                                                                                     used, among others: fine grits, hooks.




                                                                                                     The dance is performed in a circle, in a semicircle


                                                                                                     and in pairs. Cracovians, hearing a cluster

                                                                                                     performed in the dynamics of forte in the lower

                                                                                                     register of the piano, run away frightened by the

                                                                                                     menacing "dragon's roar".
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