valses

The valses are the most objective of the Chopin works, and in few of them is there more than a hint of the sullen, Sargasson seas of the nocturnes and scherzi.

Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

Some great personage, whose name I forget, gave a private supper, besides the usual one, to which we were invited; and in those days there were polkas, valses, quadrilles, and galops.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

He principally plays the genres 'sones and gustos calentanos, pasos dobles, valses, mazurcas, canciones rancheras etc.'

Purepecha Fiddle Music 2002

Those divine valses we danced together — how elegantly he dances!

On Forsyte 'Change 2004

She filled her programme rapidly and kept two valses for Vandeloup, as she knew he was going to be present, but he as yet had not made his appearance.

Madame Midas 2003

It was not a ball, nor had dancing been announced, but everyone knew that Catherine Petrovna would play valses and the ecossaise on the clavichord and that there would be dancing, and so everyone had come as to a ball.

War and Peace 2003

Catherine Petrovna did actually play valses and the ecossaise, and dancing began in which Nicholas still further captivated the provincial society by his agility.

War and Peace 2003

At all the sleighing parties, also, Miss Lesbia's form was invariably observed in Mr. Leigh's cutter, with a violet and white "cloud" matching the robe borders and ribbons on the bells; and he and the "Tee-to-tum" spun round together in half the valses of every ball during the winter.

Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

(_En passant_, why are the prettiest valses all plaintive and despairing, quadrilles and lancers cheerful and jiggy, and galops reckless, not to say tipsy?)

Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

Town Band of five, whose _répertoire_ appears to be confined to a sad and serious opening march, a rather lugubrious galop, and a couple of valses and a quick-step Polka, which evidently owe their origin to the genius of the Conductor, the entertainment offered by

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 12, 1891 Various