Show WALTZ daffee aff EVOLUTION of all the millions who waltz who can tell how this famous dance the story is a curious one it Is wrongly supposed that france received the waltz from germany to ward the close of the eighteenth cen tury the waltz did not emanate in its present form from the brain of a dancing master long before 1780 the time it is first mentioned under this name it was displayed on the village greens the waltz was first danced in the church and serves to trace the union between ancient chiv and that of the middle ages the sacred dance of the pagans is preserved to a certain extent in chris tian rites it is transformed to a ser ies of revolutions made to the sound of the st isadore arch bishon of seville born about A D was in trusted by the council of toledo with the revision of the altur gy as it was then practiced in the koman church in which there was a tambourine dance the council de led to adopt the Isa dorlan liturgy in all spain and it differed but little from that used in other countries at that time this rite celebrated before the eighth century when the moors first invaded spain was still celebrated by the christians in the seven churches of toledo which the moors aban boned after their capture of the city and it was after that time called the moorish rite this was known and employed in provence and italy the tambourine in use in this religious dance was called by st isadore de symphonic and evidently corresponded to the instrument which in the ancient sacred dances accod danied the flute a sort of bagpipe in rented two centuries before christ As the religious dance of the middle ages is allied to the ancient sacred dance so the waltz Is an evolution of this religious dance having passed through many changes before arriving in its present form in the eleventh century when the gregorian rite supplanted the moorish rite the dance disappeared from the church it appeared very quickly in society under the name of carole a word derived from the latin caroler new york herald |