<P> The Viennese custom is to slightly anticipate the second beat of each bar, making it sound as if the third is late and creating a certain buoyancy . The younger Strauss (Johann Strauss II) would sometimes break up the one - two - three of the melody with a one - two pattern in the accompaniment along with other rhythms, maintaining the 3 4 time while causing the dancers to dance a two - step waltz . The metronome speed for a full bar varies between 60 and 70, with the waltzes of the first Strauss (Johann Strauss I) often played faster than those of his sons . </P> <P> Shocking many when it was first introduced, the waltz became fashionable in Vienna around the 1780s, spreading to many other countries in the years to follow . According to contemporary singer Michael Kelly, it reached England in 1791, . During the Napoleonic Wars, infantry soldiers of the King's German Legion introduced the dance to the people of Bexhill, Sussex from 1804 . </P> <P> It became fashionable in Britain during the Regency period, having been made respectable by the endorsement of Dorothea Lieven, wife of the Russian ambassador . Diarist Thomas Raikes later recounted that "No event ever produced so great a sensation in English society as the introduction of the waltz in 1813". In the same year, a sardonic tribute to the dance by Lord Byron was anonymously published (written the previous autumn). Influential dance master and author of instruction manuals, Thomas Wilson published A Description of the Correct Method of Waltzing in 1816 . Almack's, the most exclusive club in London, permitted the waltz though the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary shows that it was considered "riotous and indecent" as late as 1825 . Ann Bronte in' The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' has a scene set in 1827 where the local vicar Reverend Milward tolerates quadrilles and country dances but intervenes decisively when a waltz is called for, declaring "No, no, I don't allow that! Come, it's time to be going home". </P> <P> The waltz, and especially its closed position, became the example for the creation of many other ballroom dances . Subsequently, new types of waltz have developed, including many folk and several ballroom dances . </P>

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