Other early references associate the Waltz with performance dancing on stage. Platts' waltzes were ordinary Country Dances in 3/8 Waltz time, examples include The Prince's Waltz (1791) and Die Lustbarkeit (1792). Platts' second collection were published in 1792 (see Figure 1), he explicitly referred to them as Schleifers, an alternative term for the German Ländler, one of the European predecessors of the Waltz dance. He was the first to register Waltzes for copyright purposes at Stationers' Hall. He issued his first known collection in 1791 ( The World, 26th January 1791), and followed it up with several similar works throughout the 1790s. Platts was a musician, composer, and also a publisher. The first English publications consisting entirely of Waltzes were probably those of James Platts. The first reference I know of in English can be found in the 1779 translation of one of Goethe's novels. It's in 2/4 measure, so not a triple-time waltz in the normal sense, but it hints that the term was starting to become known in the 1780s. For example, Thomas Skillern's 1787 Caledonian Medley Dance included a tune he named The Walse. Note: earlier references to waltzing are likely to emerge. The Waltz hadn't introduced the concept of dancing to a three beat rhythm of course (many earlier 3/8 time signature country dancing tunes exist), but these were amongst the first to be explicitly named Waltzes, at least in Britain. In these initial examples the word waltz refers to the music, usually in a 3/8 triple-time time-signature but the associated dancing figures were those of any other English Country Dance. King's Waltz in Fentum's Eight Cotillions, Six Country Dances and a favorite new Minuet for the Year 1791, and The Garman Spaw Waltz in William Campbell's c.1792 Seventh Collection of the newest & most Favorite Country Dances and Cotillions. Some of these early examples include The Walty in Longman & Broderip's Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1790, Mr. The word waltz first entered the English language from around the start of the 1780s but it took until c.1790 for early waltz music to start appearing in the annual country dance collections published by London's music vendors. Image © BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD, g.149.(23.) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Four New Schleifers or Waltzers for 1792, by James Platts.
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