His poetic impromptus for piano became the model for Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words," and the multitudinous forms of modern short pieces, while his melodious, dainty, graceful valses were the forerunners of the exquisite dance-music which subsequently made Vienna famous, and which reached its climax in Johann Strauss the younger, universally known as "the waltz king.

Each province of France had its national dance, such as the bourrée of Auvergne, the trioris of Brittany, the branles of Poitou, and the valses of Lorraine, which constituted a very agreeable pastime, and one in which the French excelled all other nations.

You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship.

Folio of dramatic minor and light valses.

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SEE Rimsky-Korsakoff, N. Une valse, op.

Une valse, op.53, no.6.

SIBELIUS, JEAN. Valse triste, from op.44; piano.

Folio of dramatic minor and light valses.

Maurice Baron & ABC Music Corp. (PCW); 20Apr55, R148976; 24May55, R150354. FOLIO OF DRAMATIC MINOR AND LIGHT VALSES. Vol.1.

Valse chromatique, fifth waltz, opus 99.

SEE Godard, Benjamin. Valse triste, from op.44.

All morning the little Erad piano shook with the Grande Valse and the Grande Polonaise of Chopin.

In her passion for the unattainable she had selected Chopin's Grande Valse in A Flat, beginning with the long shake of eight bars.

When there was a dance last night they smoked pipes in the faces of their partners between the valses, and altogether were unspeakably aggressive.

There was a Master of Ceremonies who called out the dances, and not more than ten or twelve couples were allowed to dance each time, two-steps and valses, and without exception it is the finest dancing I have ever seen,the very poetry of Motion.

The improvised valse soon ends, and I look across at the Brat.

But the music has got into our feet, and we promise ourselves one valse among ourselves before we depart.

The first bars of the valse are playing when Bobby comes bustling up.

c. A lady is then requested to name her favourite flower; and the fortunate swain who bears its name springs forward and valses off with her in triumph.

All having regained their places, each gentleman valses with his own partner once round the room, or remains sitting by her side, as she may feel inclined.

He catches it, throws it back to the fair group, and valses off with his partner.

Having done so, he pulls the covering from his eyes, and valses off with her.

"If you ever do, I, as the Lady of the Castle, ask you to 'tread a measure' with me!" "No one could resist such, an invitation," he answered, and put his arm around her for a valse.

She was so surprised that this "grave and reverend signor," as she called him, should be able to valse!