Waltz

The waltz is a dance in 3/4 timetakt, done primarilygłownie, przede wszystkim in closed positionpozycja, the commonest basic figure of which is a full turnpełny obrót in two measuresmeasure: miara, krok using three steps per measure. It first became fashionable in Vienna in about the 1780s, then spread to many other countries within the next few years. The waltz, and especially its closed positionpozycja, became the example for the creation of many other ballroom dancesballroom dance: taniec towarzyski. Subsequently, new types of waltz have developed, including many folk dancetaniec ludowy and several ballroom dance types.

The waltz is sometimes assumedto assume: przypuszczać, zakładać, przyjmować to be a descendantpotomek of the lavolta. This is unprovennieudowodniony, and the fundamental differences in technique make it hard to imagine how the one could be so closely related to the other. The main reason to assume such a descent is merelytylko, jedynie that these are two of the earliest European turning dances in closed positions for which we have explicitdobitny, wyraźny, bezpośredni written instructions. It is likely, however, that they could have had a common ancestorprzodek. The Laendler has also been suggested as a possible ancestorprzodek.

In contemporary ballroom dance, the fast versions of the waltz are called Viennese waltz.

International Standard Waltz has only closed figures; that is, the couple never leaves closed positionpozycja. Contrast American Style Waltz, in which some figures involve breaking contact entirelycałkowicie, kompletnie. For example, the Syncopated Side-by-Sidebok przy boku with Spin includes a free spinszybki obrót for both the man and lady. Open rollsroll: obrót are another good example of an open dance figure, in which the lady alternatesto alternate: zmieniać się, przerzucać się between the man's left and right sides, with the man's left or right arm (alone) providing the leadprowadzenie. The tango style of dance has a "creole waltz", or Wals, which is danced in three, but with steps that are idiomatic to the tango.

A typical waltz figure (from the man's perspective) starts loweredto lower: obniżać, spuszczać into the knees and travelling forward with a strong heelpięta leadprowadzenie. Count 2 risesrise: dojście and is taken on the ball of the foot, and count 3 starts on the ball of the foot and lowers to the heelpięta as the couple begins to lower in preparation for the next measure. A smooth rise-and-fallwzlot i upadek action is a primarygłówny, podstawowy characteristic of this dance.

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Waltz is also the name for the kind of music to which one dances the waltz. In this sense, there are waltzes in nearly every kind of European and Euro-American folk music as well as in classical or "art" music. Many songs, too, are "in waltz timetakt." The music is written out in 3/4 timetakt and typically played at a rather slow tempo (but see above). Some composers, even those that are not French-speakers, give it its French name, valse.

Waltzes typically have one chordakord per measure, with the bass of the chordakord as the first notedźwięk, nuta. As with other dances, waltzes were sometimes composed which were not intendedzamierzony, zaplanowany, przeznaczony to be danced to, but which were intendedzamierzony, zaplanowany, przeznaczony purelycałkowicie, wyłącznie, jedynie for concert use.

The most famous composers of waltz music for dancing were the Strauss family of Vienna, particularly Johann Strauss Senior and Junior. Johann Strauss Jr. surpassed the fameto surpass the fame: przewyższać sławą of his father with "The Blue Danube", which is easily the most famous of waltz melodies. Most European composers between 1780 and 1900 composed at least some examples of this popular dance, from Joseph Haydn forward. Ludwig van Beethoven's Diabelli Variations are based on a simple waltz by Anton Diabelli, Frederic Chopin's waltzes for the piano are well known (especially the "Minute Waltz"), Jean Sibelius' orchestral Valse triste is an unusually slow, even morbidchorobliwy, example, and Maurice Ravel's Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (originally for piano, but arranged by him for orchestra) and orchestral La valse are also often heard. An example of the waltz standing in for the more usual minuet or scherzo in a symphony is the fifth symphony of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The waltz also features in a number of ballets and operas (notably Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier).

Waltzes were the stapleistotny składnik, ważna część of many American musicals and films, including "Waltz in Swing Time" sung by Fred Astaire.

In the 1980s a punk rock band, The Stranglers, subvertedto subvert: osłabiać, wywracać, obalać the waltz 3/4 timetakt signature with many anti-establishment songs such as Waltzinblack and Golden Brown.

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