Annotation:St. Louis Stop Waltz
X:1 T:St. Louis Stop Waltz M:3/4 L:1/8 R:Waltz S:Elias Howe – Diamond School for the Violin (c. 1861) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D FG|BAAFGB|AffAAf|GeeGGe|FddFFG|BAAFGB| AffAAf|GeeGGe|d3 z||AFD|CEEAAc|ceeggb| baaffd|Acceeg|Addffa|z2 z Ace|f3 Ade| f3 Ace|g3 Ace|g3 eag|f3 faf|e3 eae|dcdfec|d3||
ST. LOUIS STOP WALTZ. AKA "Original Stop Waltz (The), "Stop Waltz (1) (The)." English (?), Waltz (3/4). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The stop waltz was a fashionable ballroom dance in the 19th century. A note in editor James Manson's Hamilton's Universal Tune Book vol. 2 (1853, p. 99) assigns a French provenance to the tune. It was printed in London and the United States on single sheets and in small folios as early as 1817[1]. Dance and music researcher Paul Cooper notes that "The Stop Waltz was a very popular waltzing tune around this date [i.e. c. 1816, referring to the Wheatstone collection], and it may well have featured the sudden pause when performed for waltzing couples"[2].
The famous opera composer Rossini even composed "The New Hunchback Stop Waltz", printed in the first half of the 19th century in a set of cotillions called "The Hunchback Cotillions" [1].
- ↑ See Philadelphia publisher A. Bacon's 1817 issue of "The Stop Waltz, The Echo Waltz and the Brussels Waltz". [2], and London publisher Button & Whitaker on a single sheet c. 1815 [3]
- ↑ https://www.regencydances.org/paper031.php