Talk:Minute Waltz

message: I recall someone - pretty sure it was Victor Borge, but could've been somebody else - who had a regular bit where he'd perform the piece while purportedly sitting on a barrel of explosives with a lit one-minute fuse.  This, coupled with a with a nervous wiping of the forehead with the free hand during the middle section where the opening is repeated, and a quick stomp out of the fuse at the end, made for a nice bit of comedy.  (The fuse I'm sure was actually longer than one minute - I've heard this piece sped up to play in one minute, and not only do I doubt that there's any human performer who could pull it off, but it sounds terrible at that speed.)  Lurlock (talk) 16:45, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dynamite performance 

message: isn't this song also called "the Little Dog Waltz"Theundesided (talk) 12:44, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, and there's a mention of this title in the article. Mike Christie (talk) 12:46, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

text: Literally, "Waltz of the Farewell".  --  Jack of Oz [Talk] 03:59, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Little Dog Waltz

message: "a typical performance of the work will last between one and a half to two and a half minutes"
This is ungrammatical (correct would be between ... and or from ... to) but it is the exact wording of the reference cited. How does Wikipedia handle such cases? 2.25.135.101 (talk) 23:15, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: We simply fix the grammar.  Sources give us content, but we're not supposed to quote them holus-bolus; rather, we use the information they contain to write the article in our own words, but with no loss of meaning.  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 12:44, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yes, I'm being fussy about grammar. 

message: The recording of the Minute Waltz (Muriel Nguyen Xuan) isn't exactly ideal; the performer kept messing up, and hit a completely wrong key at the climax of the performance. I think we need a better recording. Light Peak (talk) 22:55, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poor soundtrack 

message: The "UK" pronunciation may also be heard in the US (from Americans).  In fact, I've never heard the "US" pronunciation.  (I don't doubt that it exists and I'm not knocking anyone who uses it.)  Kostaki mou (talk) 23:59, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: This rehashes the larger section above "Minute vs minute" and might be incorporated in it, if an editor claiming ownership of the site sees fit, or deleted entirely, as it's rather irrelevant, as the author of this entry admits he's never heard of the thesis he proposes, which therefore breaches NPOV, he's acting entirely constructively.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.250.132.218 (talk) 08:34, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  pronunciation: UK /maɪˈnjuːt/, US /məˈnjuːt/ 

message: I have never heard the name of this quite popular piece pronounced as if it meant "tiny", but always (that's over sixty years) as the much more common sense of a  unit of time: . I  am a linguist (language scientist)  and notice these things. That's how it's "popularly known", as the article puts it; whether it was originally popularly called that in French is a  separate question and belongs in History, not in the lede. 
The pronunciations and explanation were unsourced. I  have replaced them with the common "time" pronunciation and will seek refs for it in  a  few hours, when I have time. --Thnidu (talk) 19:31, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I've never heard the name of this piece pronounced that way either.  I meant the pronunciation of the word "minute" meaning "tiny." Kostaki mou (talk) 19:21, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Again, this reopens the Minute vs minute section and belongs there, if it belongs anywhere.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.250.132.218 (talk) 08:53, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  which "minute"? 

message: Mention ought to be made that this piece of music has been brought to a wider public by its being used as the opening and closing theme of the BBC Radio 4 programme Just A Minute. Nuttyskin (talk) 11:57, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  A "Cultural References" Section?