Innaby (Azerbaijani: İnnabı) is an Azerbaijani national dance[1] in 6/8 time.[2] Young women and girls perform the dance at parties, weddings and holidays. It is often accompanied by a musical ensemble of sazandars consisting of folk musical instruments such as the tar (lute), kamancha and daf. In the early 20th century, it was considered as an everyday life dance.[3] Its motions are slow and quiet, but its pace is moderately lively.[4]
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- ^ Николай Павлович Колесников (1995). Словарь несклоняемых слов. p. 77.
- ^ Иннаби in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978 (in Russian)
- ^ "Иннаби" (in Russian). Музыкальная энциклопедия.
- ^ Тамара Степановна Ткаченко (1967). Народный танец. p. 277.