Quadrilles are unlike other Lucian dances in that they must be memorized and choreographed, with only slight room for personal interpretation and improvisation.

In the meantime a strong tendency emerged to drop all ' decorative ' steps such as entrechats and ronds de jambes that had found a place in the Quadrilles and other dances.

He composed several pieces for her, among which are two Quadrilles, a song duet, and an incomplete piano study for the left hand.

Quadrilles, too, including the cotillon, anglicized as cotillion, were brought to America by French dancing masters.

In the 19th century the word primarily indicated that the dance was a turning one ; one would " waltz " in the polka to indicate rotating rather than going straight forward without turning.

In the 19th and early 20th century, numerous different waltz forms existed, including versions performed in 2 / 4 or 6 / 8 ( sauteuse ), and 5 / 4 time ( 5 / 4 waltz, half and half )

* In traditional Irish music, the waltz was taught by traveling dancing masters to those who could afford their lessons during the 19th century.

* The Valse Musette, a form of waltz popular in France starting in the late 19th century

In his lifetime, he was known as " The Waltz King ", and was largely then responsible for the popularity of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century.

The waltz entered all countries in the Americas ; its relative popularity in 19th century Cuba is hard to estimate.

When the waltz became popular in the 19th century, a Colombian version called pasillo was created.

As the quadrille became even more popular in the 19th century, it evolved into forms that used elements of the waltz, including Caledonian, Lancer, Ländler, Deutscher, and so on.

In the 19th century, choro resulted from the style of playing several musical genres ( polka, schottische, waltz, mazurka and habanera ) by carioca musicians, who were already strongly influenced by African rhythms, principally the lundu and the batuque.

Though attended only by a tradition-minded minority, Vienna folk dance events are carefully organized events often taking place at extraordinary locations, such as, the Alpenverein, the Autumn Dance at baroque Belvedere ( palace ), the Ländler dances ( the traditional music of which bears the rhythm from which in the 19th century the Vienna waltz music was developed ), and the summer dances which take place twice each week during summer holiday season ( July & August ).

This trend continued in 18th and 19th century with folk-dance crazes like the mazurka, the waltz and the polka.

The prototype independent couples dance was the waltz ( early 19th century Vals in Cuba ).

Contra dances were fashionable in the United States until the early to mid-19th century, when they were supplanted in popularity by square dances ( such as the quadrille and lancers ) and couple dances ( such as the waltz and polka ).

The Sauteuse is a leaping waltz commonly done in 2 / 4 rather than 3 / 4 time, similar in pattern ( leap-glide-close ) to the Redowa and Waltz Galop of the later nineteenth century.

There are several references to a sliding or gliding dance ,- a waltz, from the 16th century including the representations of the printer H. S.

By the end of that century, the dance spread to the middle and lower classes of Irish society and traditional triple-tune tunes and songs were altered to fit the waltz rhythm.

During the 20th century, the waltz found a distinctively Irish playing style in the hands of Céilidh musicians at dances.

* The cross-step waltz ( French Valse Boston ), developed in France in the early 20th century and popular in social waltz groups today.

By the turn of the century, the middle classes of Maryland were holding regular dances featuring the cotillion, quadrille, schottische, polka and waltz.

In the early 18th century, European dances like polka, waltz, reel and schottische begin to arrive via Denmark.

The famous rivalry with Strauss I had ended ; Lanner's death marked the beginning of a period where the Strauss family was to dominate the Viennese dance music scene for well over a half a century and concluded an era of interesting and exciting developments for the waltz and other popular dance music.

The younger Strauss would sometimes break up the one-two-three of the melody with a one-two pattern in the accompaniment along with other rhythms, maintaining the 3 / 4 time while causing the dancers to dance a two-step waltz.

During the opening credits the waltz theme is heard along with a prolonged shot of couples dancing.

While he did not possess a musical talent as rich as his eldest son's, nor a business mind as astute, he was among the handful of early waltz composers along with Joseph Lanner to actively write pieces with individual titles — with the view to boost sales of their sheet music — which enabled music enthusiasts to easily recognize those pieces.

It opens the concluding section of the series which moves from the ridiculous to the sublime, from Diabelli's waltz to Beethoven's minuet, along the way incorporating the history of music from Bach, through Mozart, to the world of Beethoven's own last piano sonatas.

Many of his engagements were forced to be cancelled although Strauss felt sufficiently well to appear at his benefit concert at the Sofienbad-Saal ballroom on January 16, 1853 along with his new waltz ' Phönix-Schwingen '.

The chorus, performed by all four singers, is an expression of the longing for the old way of life and the loss of the traditional West: " This is the last cowboy song / The end of a hundred-year waltz / The voices sound sad as they're singing along / Another piece of America's lost ".

In 1819, as a promotional idea, he decided to try to publish a volume of variations on a " patriotic " waltz he had penned expressly for this purpose, with one variation by every important Austrian composer living at the time, as well as several significant non-Austrians.

The waltz with its modern hold took root in England in about 1812 ; in 1819 Carl Maria von Weber wrote Invitation to the Dance, which marked the adoption of the waltz form into the sphere of absolute music.

This paired development has continued through the ages with dance / music forms such as: jig, waltz, tango, disco, salsa, electronica and hip-hop.

Common rhythms in bluegrass bass playing involve ( with some exceptions ) plucking on beats 1 and 3 in 4 / 4 time ; beats 1 and 2 in 2 / 4 time, and on the downbeat in 3 / 4 time ( waltz time ).

In the 1810s, the era of the Regency proper, English dance began an important transition with the introduction of the quadrille and the waltz.

The cockerel " waltz ", when the cockerel struts in a half circle with one wing extended down, is an aggressive approach signifying to females his dominance, and usually, the female will submit by running or moving away from the cockerel in acknowledgement.

In the 1771 German novel Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim by Sophie von La Roche, a high-minded character complains about the newly introduced waltz among aristocrats thus: " But when he put his arm around her, pressed her to his breast, cavorted with her in the shameless, indecent whirling-dance of the Germans and engaged in a familiarity that broke all the bounds of good breeding — then my silent misery turned into burning rage.

Soler's waltz was marked Andante con moto, or " at a walking pace with motion ", but the flow of the dance was sped-up in Vienna leading to the Geschwindwalzer, and the Galloppwalzer.

A hesitation is basically a halt on the standing foot during the full waltz measure, with the moving foot suspended in the air or slowly dragged.

Basically the dancers progress around the dance floor with a waltz step, but with no constraints on what moves they can use.

Utilizing his Latin influences from his bossa nova days with Bola Sete, Guaraldi composed a number of pieces with waltz tempos and jazz standards and later recorded this performance in 1965.

In 1968 Piazzolla wrote and produced an " operita ", María de Buenos Aires, that employed a larger ensemble including flute, percussion, multiple strings and three vocalists, and juxtaposed movements in Piazzolla's own style with several pastiche numbers ranging from waltz and hurdy-gurdy to a piano / narrator bar-room scena straight out of Casablanca.

Jacobs suggests that Berlioz's La damnation de Faust, a great favourite in Sullivan's formative years, may have been the model for Sullivan's trademark contrapuntal mingling of the rapid prattle of the women's chorus in Act I (" How beautifully blue the sky ") in 2 / 4 time with the lovers ' duet in waltz time.

For the Vienna production of 1860, Carl Binder provided an overture that became famous, beginning with its bristling fanfare, followed by a tender love song, a dramatic passage, a complex waltz, and, finally, the renowned Can-can music.

The piece, conceived many years earlier, became a waltz with a macabre undertone, famous for its “ fantastic and fatal whirling ”.

Whenever the orchestra played a polka or waltz, Welk himself would dance with the band's female vocalist, the " Champagne Lady.

In the audition scene with Iturbi, Grayson sings a special arrangement by Earl Brent for coloratura soprano and orchestra of the waltz from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings.

In September, Brel recorded his fourth album, La Valse à Mille Temps ( The waltz a thousand times as fast ), with François Rauber and his orchestra.

Strauss Jr. eventually surpassed his father's fame, and became one of the most popular waltz composers of the era, extensively touring Austria – Hungary, Poland, and Germany with his orchestra.