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Katrin \u00a0Pens\u00e9e<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The Gift of \u00be<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u201cLife\u2019s a dance.\u00a0 Some people walk through it gracefully, while others take two steps, one step forward, two steps back.\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Unknown<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00be is a time signature that is used in music.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n There are 4\/4, 6\/8 and other time signatures.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00be is a waltz, a dance and whimsical beat.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n When you are struggling, perhaps stop and ponder this lovely beat.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n One two three, one two three, start a little waltz.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Sing a little tune like Johann Strauss.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n He wrote The Blue Danube Waltz to lift his Viennese compatriots spirit.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Their country had been at war and endured a lot.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n He wrote this little tune to give joy to their tired hearts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n When life has you down and not in a \u00be time frame.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Do a little waltz to regain your equilibrium one beat at a time.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Have you ever danced a waltz?\u00a0 Have you seen someone waltz?\u00a0 The dance is so graceful to the strains of a time signature of \u00be.\u00a0 To those who are not familiar with music, each piece of music has a time signature or a beat if you will.\u00a0 Musicians follow this beat to allow the music to have symmetry and marked time.\u00a0 It would be an addled mess if each musician just picked how they were going to count the music that they were reading.\u00a0 The only time that this would be remotely easy would be if it was one musician who was not accompanying people dancing.\u00a0 Just like the musicians counting, the dancers are counting as well.\u00a0 If you have never heard the Blue Danube waltz it is quite beautiful.\u00a0 It was written by Richard Strauss II in 1866 to bolster the spirits of the war-trodden Austrians.\u00a0 They had just lost the seven week war to the Prussians, a particularly low point for the country.\u00a0 Strauss based the waltz on a poem by Karl Isidor Beck, each line ending with \u201cBy the Danube, By the Beautiful Blue Danube\u201d.\u00a0 As with most artists they took some liberties with the Danube actually being blue because as we all know most rivers are not blue.\u00a0 When the waltz was first unveiled the response was quite muted from the Viennese.\u00a0 This was a little disappointing to Strauss.\u00a0 Strauss did not give up, he took his piece to France at the World Exhibition and it was an immediate success.\u00a0 The piece garnered so much praise that the printing press had to print over one million copies for the piano!\u00a0 That is a lot for the year 1867.\u00a0 The waltz is much like life.\u00a0 The count is one, two, three.\u00a0 The rise and fall of the meter can be likened to the ebb and flow of everyday life.\u00a0 How can you change your life from a piece with no real time signature to a beautiful waltz?\u00a0 By counting what joyful and meaningful beats are in your life.\u00a0 There are many varieties of waltzes.\u00a0 There are at least sixteen (if not more), the American Waltz, The Estonian Waltz, The Peruvian Waltz to just name a few.\u00a0 Sure, there are some that are in odd meters such as 5\/4 and 8\/4 but there is still a dance that is graceful and sometimes a little weird yet melodious.\u00a0 The most popular and enduring waltz is that of the Viennese, in its beautiful \u00be time.\u00a0 Find your meter, find your waltz and dance the dance of life. \u00a0 \u201cThe journey between who you once were, and who you are becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.\u201d\u00a0 Barbara Delungio.\u00a0 We will stumble, we may even lose the beat but lets pick ourselves up, say a little one two three and start to dance again.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Source:classicfm.com<\/p>\r\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Katrin \u00a0Pens\u00e9e The Gift of \u00be \u201cLife\u2019s a dance.\u00a0 Some people walk through it gracefully, while others take two steps, one step forward, two steps back.\u201d. Unknown \u00be is a time signature that is used in music. There are 4\/4, 6\/8 and other time signatures. \u00be is a waltz, a dance and whimsical beat. 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