Waltz

"Valzer" redirects here. For the 2007 Italian film, see Valzer (film).
"Waltzing" redirects here. For the Luxembourgian trumpeter and composer, see Gast Waltzing.
For the music made to accompany the waltz, see Waltz (music). For other uses, see Waltz (disambiguation).
For technical reasons, "Waltz #2 (XO)" redirects here. For the song, see Waltz 2 (XO).
Waltz
A phenakistoscope animation by Eadweard Muybridge demonstrating the waltz
GenreBallroom dance
Time signature3
4
Detail from frontispiece to Thomas Wilson Correct Method of German and French Waltzing (1816), showing nine positions of the waltz, clockwise from the left (the musicians are at far left). At that time, the waltz was a relatively new dance in England, and the fact that it was a couples dance (as opposed to the traditional group dances), and that the gentleman clasped his arm around the lady's waist, gave it a dubious moral status.

The waltz (from German Walzer [ˈvalt͡sɐ̯]), meaning "to roll or revolve")[1] is a ballroom and folk dance, in triple (3
4 time), performed primarily in closed position. Along with the ländler and allemande, the waltz was sometimes referred to by the generic term German Dance in publications during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.[2]

  1. ^ Etymology Online
  2. ^ Cliff Eisen (2001). "German Dance (Ger. Deutsche, Deutscher Tanz, Teutsche; Fr. allemande; It. tedesco)". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.10937.