![]() ![]() You might not want to use that term if the music isn't jazz. There is a similar problem with using the term "stride." That's a particular jazz piano style. I found a collection of pieces titles "waltzes" by Clementi and they use many accompaniment patterns that are not "bass chord chord." Chopin's Mazurka's have many "bass chord chord" patterns, but they aren't waltzes. Mozart wrote various dances and sometimes you can find "bass chord chord" patterns, but it wouldn't be appropriate to call that "waltz style". I think historical period for various styles and basic variations of the patterns need to be considered when thinking about what label is appropriate. will be understood generally to be "bass chord chord" but it isn't a perfectly clear meaning. However the polka dances the steps quicker than the waltz (you could perhaps write it “OM (pa)-pah - OM (pa)-pah”), whereas a Foxtrot dances them slower: OM - ? - pah - pah (– of course the musicians need something to do in that second beat!)Ĭertainly "waltz style" or "waltz accompaniment" etc. I don’t see that as being at all a good fit for this question.Įdited to add: Dancing a polka can feel quite similar to dancing a Viennese waltz, and with good reason. Regarding other replies, a polka of course is a dance in 2/4 consisting of two quick steps followed by a slow step (followed by the same in the other direction), often slightly ‘swung’ in rhythm. A foxtrot is normally danced to big band swing – think your big Sinatra numbers – which don't always have a down/up or heavy/light emphasis between the first beat of the bar and the remaining beats however your examples of “Our House” and “For No One” are instantly recognisable to me as a Foxtrot rhythm, and probably would have been widely recognised as such certainly at the Beatles' time when ballroom dance styles were still part of the cultural memory. ![]() The Foxtrot is a dance danced in 4/4 consisting of a ‘heel’ stride over the first two beats, followed by two ‘toe’ steps on the third and fourth beats (if you have ever learnt the style taught by the Fred Astaire™ school of ballroom dancing then sadly what is called the Foxtrot is a strange modification in which the pattern of steps repeats every 6 beats, not every four please put this from your mind). This down-up-up pattern is matched by the music, whether you want to think of vertical inclination or perhaps weight: heavy-light-light, or any other approriate metaphor. Whether the dancers actually achieve different ‘heights’, as in the English or slow waltz (with the dancers remaining on the ball of the foot during the ‘toe’ steps), or remain level due to the need for rapid rotation in the quicker Viennese waltz does not change the fundamental pattern of a heel stride followed by two toe steps. The dance of the waltz consists of one ‘down’ step (– a free, natural stride taken with the leg swinging in the same manner as in walking and with the heel making first contact with the ground) followed by two ‘up’ steps, taken with the legs extended and with the toe making first contact with the ground. ‘Waltz’, of course, originates as a decription of a dance, extending to the style of music to which a waltz can be danced to – as indeed is the case with many musical characterisations.
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