Chopin, Fantasia Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Valse in A-flat, opus 42.
There is a valse in it which was popular for a time, and a few catchy numbers, but the critic was right--mediocre is the word.
The whole overture is really in valse time, and the second half of the second theme makes a most interesting syncopated valse.
At country dances she had shirked it whenever she could, taking advantage of a clearer floor to dance with some willing partner right through a valse or a two-step from beginning to end.
In the meantime the delicious strains of a valse were swinging through the great room, and the smooth floor was full of dancers, except in the space reserved for the royalties, where only a few couples were circling.
Certain pieces demand a particularly strict observance of the rhythm, as does the Opus 42 of Chopin, in which the left hand must adhere very strictly to the Valse rhythm.
If you think it right, and your aim at the keyboard is good, you are not likely to hit the wrong notes, even in skips such as one finds in the Rubinstein Valse in E flat.
Smith and his wife have never been at a dance since the night he proposed to her at the Woolwich ball, and feel quite romantic at the prospect of a valse together.
Such a valse as that is a joy for ever--a thing to dream of, is it not?
Could such a being valse and bend, as ordinary mortals do, to the commonplace movements of a mere quadrille?
The first bars of thevalse are playing when Bobby comes bustling up.
The improvised valse soon ends, and I look across at the Brat.
A moment ago Mr. Parker came up to me, and told me in his gay, loud voice how much he would like to have a valse with me, but that his clothes are so tight, he really dare not.
But the music has got into our feet, and we promise ourselves one valse among ourselves before we depart.
I'm engaged for nearly every single valse at the Duchess's ball on Tuesday already!
The test piece for the examination was the "Valse Triste" by Sibelius, and she set to work at once to wrestle with it.
She was surprised at her own confidence, and went through the Valse Triste so easily that it was over almost before she realized what she was doing.
An upright semi-grand piano near the door, flanked by two palms in pots, executed suddenly all by itself a valse tune with aggressive virtuosity.
The mechanical piano near the door played through a valse cheekily, then fell silent all at once, as if gone grumpy.
And he cleared his throat and hummed "La Valse Bleue.
On the sweet blue lake a tiny sail, like a pocket handkerchief, dipped and curtseyed away, and through the open windows of the drawing-room Aldo could be heard playing a Valse Triste.
The "Valse Bleue" was swaying its hackneyed sweetness across the dusk.
He himself added to the programme an announcement to the effect that she would introduce in the lesson scene the valse from Romeo and Juliet.
She sang the Shadow Song from Dinorah delightfully, and in reply to a general encore gave the valse from the Romeo and Juliet of Gounod.
Elektra laments her father in a very pretty and undistinguished melody, and entreats her sister to slay Klytemnæstra to the accompaniment of a sort of valse perverse.
The lascivious and hieratic dance, the dance of the seven veils, is represented by a valse lente.
Moods like that which mothered the amiable elegance of the "Valse Triste" and that which produced the hard and naked essentiality of the Fourth Symphony are almost foreign to each other.
Their Summerland lies elsewhere than Margate or the Moors; and a valse with a pirouetting table or a little gentle levitation or elongation delights them more than all the revels of the countryside.
Valse Triste" of Sibelius, a favourite with Olva, seemed to him now to be humming its thin spiral note amongst the skins and Chinese weapons that covered the walls.
Of the three "Characteristic Waltzes," the "Valse Sentimentale" is by far the most interesting.
A "Valse de Salon" has its good bits, but is rather overwrought.
Of Foerster's piano compositions opus 11 is a "Valse Brillante," warm and melodious.
From far in the distance came the softened strains of Hungarian music, and never had the little band played the "Valse Amoureuse" and the "Valse Bleue" with the spirit it put into them that night.
Albert Spaulding Playing Alabama, by Spaulding and Valse in G flat, by Chopin.
The lord of Valse remaining at Lintz with his lady, I continued my journey in company with sir Jacques Trousset, to Erfurt, which belongs to the count de Chambourg.
I left Vienna in company with the before-mentioned lord ofValse and sir Jacques Trousset.
It belongs to the duke of Austria, and the lord of Valse is governor of it.
The lord de Valse went to the gentleman, and made him a sign to go away, which he complied with.
The lord de Valse hastened to him, and entreated he would not put such an affront on him in his own house.
A great lady who was present at Chopin's last concert in Paris (1848), when he played among other works his Valse in D flat (Op.
I shall never forget the manner in which he executed the Barcarole, that adorable composition; the Waltz in D flat (la valse au petit chien) was encored amidst the acclamations of the public.
That it has been and why it has been called valse au petit chien need here only be recalled to the reader's recollection (see Chapter XXVI.
I'm going to dance this valse with Mr. Lucanaster.
In all the editions save one that I have seen the third study in D flat begins on A flat, like the famous Valse in D flat.
D flat Valse and the cyclonic rush of chromatic double notes in the E flat minor Scherzo--these are not studied imitations but spontaneous transpositions to the ideal plane of primary, natural phenomena.
The idealized dance forms he preferred; the Polonaise, Mazurka and Valse were already there for him to handle, but the Ballade was not.
Regarding certain phrasing of this valse Moriz Rosenthal wrote to the London "Musical Standard": In Music there is Liberty and Fraternity, but seldom Equality, and in music Social Democracy has no voice.
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