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ORIGIN OF THE WALTZ

ORIGIN OF THE WALTZ
Not of German Derivation, bu, {,
cred Pagan Dance
The opinion most generally cnDoos
is that France received the waitz IN
Germany toward the close OF Inc A,y,
zenith century, and among MANY
ileIs this contains the most truto
the justice OF attrlbutIng 10 Geaa,
influence the renaissance OF Inc ".
IN France does not of necessug ye-
the statement that it had It's orsn
Germany. Like everything else h
touches humanity, where nothing
born spontaneously, but everyla,p
the product of series of success
evolutions, the waltz did not emss
in it's present from from the bran
dancing master. Long before I'm
time when we find it first mep,s
under this name, it's graceful Gu
and cadences We're displayed on
village greens as we'll as in the
salons of palaces: it had its all
tions of vogue and neglect, its
porters and detractors. The waltz
many other secular things, we find
in the church, where, in the ma
barbaric disorder, it serves 10 trad
union between ancient civillzatm
| that of the middle ages. The Ga,
dance of the pagans is preserved
| certain point in Christian rites,
| transformed to a series of evolu,a
made to the sound of the tambOur
st. Isidore, archbishop of Seville,
about A. D. $50, was intrusted BY
council of Toledo with the reyisia
the liturgy as it was then practiea +
the Roman Church, in which there
a tambourine dance. The counci
cided to adopt the Isidorian litufgl
all Spain, and it differed but little II
that used in other countries at Y
time. This rite, celebrated before
eighth century. when the MooE 1
invaded Spain, was still celebraisdl
the Christians in the seven churchs
Toledo, which the Moors abandoned'
ter their capture of the city, and
after that time called the Moorish
This was known and employed in p
ence and Italy. The tambourine irl
in this religious dance was called
st. Isidore ''moite de symphonic
evidently corresponded to the ms.
ment which, in the ancient SEA
dances, accompanied the flute, al
of bagpipe invented two centuries
fore Christ. And thus, as the rets
dance of the middle ages is aiea
the ancient sacred dance, so the v
is an evolution of this religious Do
having passed through many chg
before arriving at its present form
the eleventh century, when the Gre
ian rite supplanted the Moorish
the dance disappeared from the chu
It appeared very quickly in society
der the name of carole, a word der
from the Latin "caroler;" aftera
under that of basse-dance, in v
the grand prelates, kings and dig
ries did not disdain to join, comp
of three parts-two very SLOW
one more lively. The people-an
this time all who We're not of the ca
or royalty were the people-uSea
latter part, called the tourdion, "
lighter and more lively, appealea
them, and little by little it bs'
, changed. In Italy it was first %
ated from the rest under the nai''
: romanesca, and from there II pu'
/, to Provence and southern Germaa'
; Provence it was developed ino
: gaillard and vote, while the GsiA,
2 more dreamy and slow, change :,
5 romanesca into the allemand sa' "
The vote succumbed while Ye's
: Oblivion in the sixteenth ceh'''' ,
. very reason of its excess, but us :
: man lived long and produced lns '
3 which reigns to-day.
: Thus from the tourdion OF 'ne
: tocratic dance, transformed by tny'
' pie, was born the romanesca, WIZ
came in France the gaillard anu :,
: and in Germany. through W.
! stages, emerged at last into 'iie !,
. and this last avatar of the ou : !.
: of the eleventh century seems " =
e stalled definitely and to have H. -.
fancy of the world. The walt1 -
ways had, and always VIII h@'
probation and opposition, Du. "
triumphed over all, and TO-DAY ''s
q ical rhythm, so charming anI -
o tivating, which Beethoven anu !
: disdained not to immortailze, ~,
e heard on every side. The in ,s.,
r to the Waltz" by Weber, rnaen INV,
8 orchestrated by Berlioz, IS CEN IN
E but, of course, it must be rei' ',.s
that these waltzes were co,np s,r
be listened to rather than 10 W