Sentence examples for waltz rhythm from inspiring English sources

The driving waltz rhythm makes the heroine long to dance, but she can't bear to dance with Bedl.

In Sibelius's Valse Triste, the waltz rhythm seemed to dissolve and reconstitute itself in territory somewhere between dream and nightmare.

"Dark Theater" ends, though, with Satie's famous "Je te veux," in which he presents openly affectionate sentiment in conventionally fluent waltz rhythm and cabaret singalong melody.

Kynan Johns conducts in lively fashion, at times even injecting that quintessentially Viennese nudge on the second beat of waltz rhythm.

In Tristano's "Wow," the melody, in four, was laid over a waltz rhythm; piano and trumpet played Tristano's galloping, whorl-like lines, while saxophone and bass played the ground notes in unison; and the drumming was in half-time.

Chowder's own theory, which he returns to throughout the book, is that the "true" English line has a three-beat "slow waltz" rhythm ("How SMALL of all that HUman hearts enDURE") or a six-beat rhythm in which the last beat is a rest ("All HUman THINGS are SUBject TO deCAY [rest]").

Balanchine's choreography is subtle, offering a waltz for the corps and Ms. Whelan when there are no waltz rhythms.

The band have fun: the button accordionist throwing in audacious substitute chords, the pianist weaving in snippets of Chopin and Beethoven, the drummer slipping into jazz waltz rhythms.

But not for Rachmaninoff's "Symphonic Dances" (1940), which looks just as resolutely and yearningly backward, wallowing in waltz rhythms, flowing melody, rich harmony and nostalgia.

Early in the guests' captivity, when their inability to leave seems more absurd than abject, waltz rhythms proliferate, variously recalling classic Johann Strauss, the boozy dances of "Der Rosenkavalier," and the deconstructed waltzes of Ravel and Stravinsky.

Outfitted with Rouben Ter-Arutunian's dazzling sets and Karinska's period costumes, this five-part essay on waltz rhythms once seemed a lavish costume drama with a subtext about love in many aspects.