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The waltz is in A-flat major, with a time signature of 3/4. The tempo is marked at tempo di valse, or a waltz tempo. The beginning theme, marked con espressione, is melancholic and nostalgic, and reaches a small high point with a fast flourish. The second part is marked sempre delicatissimo, or con anima in other versions. It is somewhat more ...
"Ashokan Farewell" / ə ˈ ʃ oʊ ˌ k æ n / is a musical piece composed by the American folk musician Jay Ungar in 1982. For many years, it served as a goodnight or farewell waltz at the annual Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camps, run by Ungar and his wife Molly Mason, who named the tune after the Ashokan Field Campus (now the Ashokan Center) of SUNY New Paltz in Upstate New York.
A French edition was published in 1976 and an English version entitled The Farewell Party. This novel mostly deals with love, hate and accidents between eight characters who are drawn together in a small spa town in Czechoslovakia in early 1970s. Like most Kundera's work The Farewell Waltz is a book of many layers. On the surface it is a comedy ...
Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 69, No. 1 (Chopin), called also The Farewell Waltz or Valse de l'adieu. "Farewell", the final movement in Waldszenen , op. 82 by Robert Schumann Albums
The Last Waltz was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The Last Waltz was advertised as the Band's "farewell concert appearance", [2] and the concert had the Band joined by more than a dozen special guests, including their previous employers Ronnie Hawkins and Bob Dylan, as well ...
The waltz (from German Walzer ⓘ, 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.
Frédéric Chopin's waltzes are pieces of moderate length for piano, all written between 1824 and 1849. They are all in waltz triple meter, specifically 3/4 (except Op. P1/13, which is in 3/8 time), but differ from earlier Viennese waltzes in not being intended for dancing; nonetheless, several have been used in ballets, most notably Les Sylphides.
Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 69, No. 1 (Chopin), also called the "Farewell Waltz" The Farewell Waltz, a 1928 French film by Henry Roussel; Farewell Waltz, 1934 German film distributed in U.S. 1939 by Columbia Pictures "Farewell Waltz in G major", an 1831 piano work by Mikhail Glinka "Farewell Waltz", a work by Charles Nolcini (1802-1844 ...