Message 8/8
Date: 10-Sep-00 @ 10:04 AM -
RE: Time signatures
actually, u can make pretty danceable waltzes in 3/4 time. The problem is, people can't dance any more, they just shake their hands and asses to the loud boom, boom beat they hear in ckubs
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The waltz, when well executed, cannot be surpassed by any of the more modern dances in point of graceful movement, and has probably been discarded for the reason that the continual whirling in an unvarying movement, which is its peculiar characteristic, produced a dizziness that is avoided by the opportunity afforded in later dances of going in any direction the dancers desire.
right foot in front: Place the right foot forward (count one); then the left forward, slightly turning it inward (count two); draw up the right foot in front of the left, n (count three) place the left foot out (count four); draw the right foot so that the toe may be behind the hollow of the left foot (count five); then turn on the toes, so as to bring the right foot in front of the left, (count six).
The above is intended for the lady; the gentleman executes the same, but commences with the 4, 5, 6, while the lady cutes the 1, 2, 3; turning half round with three, and the other half with three, making six steps in all.
(from the site above)