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The piece is known all over the world. According to an article by Hiromi Oketani in the Osaka Shoin Women's College Annual for 1994, [2] it is known in Japan as "Neko Funjatta" (ねこふんじゃった, I Stepped on the Cat), in Spain as "La Chocolatera", in the Netherlands as "Vlooienmars" (Flea March), in French-speaking countries as "Valse des puces" (Flea Waltz), in Russia as Russian ...
The three waltz episodes are surrounded by slower music forming an introduction, interludes, and a coda; this slower music, too, sometimes alludes to Rosenkavalier." Stucky continued: But in Dreamwaltzes the past proves elusive; the waltz music is always slipping away almost as soon as it has begun. The point is clearest in the crucial third ...
A section from Johann Strauss' Waltz from Die Fledermaus. A waltz, [a] probably deriving from German Ländler, is dance music in triple meter, often written in 3 4 time.A waltz typically sounds one chord per measure, and the accompaniment style particularly associated with the waltz is (as seen in the example to the right) to play the root of the chord on the first beat, the upper notes on the ...
It has a slow introduction (Moderato) leading to a fast section (Allegro vivace), then a lilting waltz theme. Other waltz tunes appear, and the fast section, exuberant scale passages (Vivace) and the main waltz theme are all repeated. It comes to a rousing conclusion – or what sounds very much like one – then finishes with a quiet coda once ...
The piece combines two different styles of music, the classical waltz and the rag, and has been seen as demonstrating Joplin's excellence as a classical composer. The work has been described as "an enchantingly beautiful piece that is among the greatest of Ragtime Waltzes ", [ 1 ] a "masterpiece", [ 2 ] and "Joplin's finest waltz".
Frédéric Chopin's Waltz No. 19 in A minor, B. 150, WN 63, KK IVb/11, P. 2/11, is a waltz for solo piano. The waltz was written sometime between 1847 and 1849, [ 1 ] but was not published until 1860, after the composer's death, by Jacques Maho.
The "Ländler", as performed in the film The Sound of Music, is not a traditional Ländler, but a choreographed derivative of this Austrian form of folk dance. The "Chicken Dance" is not an Austrian folk dance, nor is it from Austria. The song "Edelweiss" is not an Austrian folk song, and it is not the national anthem of Austria.
It is scored for 3 saxophones (2 alto (2nd doubling soprano), and tenor), 2 trumpets, trombone, percussion (wood block, snare drum, cymbals, glockenspiel, xylophone - one player), banjo, Hawaiian guitar, piano, violin and double bass. [2]