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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".