valse
- n a ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat
- Now 52, he lives away from the world in the forest at Montfort-l'Amaury, concerning himself with the creation of music: for grown-ups his orchestral valse, his mocking Tziganes .
- Says precocious Prokofiev: "At six I wrote down myself a valse .
- The Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 brought forth A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody; 1924 saw both the tenderly brooding What'll I Do? and the valse triste All Alone.