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Excerpt from The Waltz: With 4 Plates in Colour and 31 Black-and-White Illustrations
Yet much water had to ?ow under the Danube bridges before the waltz attained the classic form and perfection Strauss imparted to it. Its growth from primitive miniatures of eight and Sixteen bars' length to whole sets, with a quasi-symphonic introduction and a long coda, Often running into four hundred bars and more, was a rather slow process, the beginning Of which reaches well back into the second half Of the eighteenth century, or even earlier.
The people here are excessively fond of the pleasure Of dancing; they need only hear the music of a waltz to begin to caper, no matter where they are. The public dance ?oors are visited by all classes; these are the places where ancestors and rank seem to be forgotten and aristocratic pride laid aside. Here we see artisans, artists, merchants, councillors, barons, counts and excellencies dancing together with waitresses, women Of the middle class, and ladies. Every stranger who stays here for a while is infected by this dance malady.
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