Waltz

A popular dance or musical style typically consisting of a 3/4 or three-beat per measure rhythm. As a dance, the waltz is usually performed as a three-step in a circular motion. As music, it is an analog to march form, with multiple sections in the tonic and subdominant keys. Some waltzes can have as many as eight distinct sections that continue for several minutes. Vienna, Austria, is most often considered as the location where waltzes grew into a mature form from the late eighteenth century into the mid-nineteenth centuries, spreading in popularity throughout Europe, and then to the United States.