> Which type of ballroom dance is in triple meter, with a feel of one-two-threeone-two-three?And the answer: Waltz.Written in 3/4 time, with three beats to each measure, the music for waltzes wasoriginally intended for dancing in a large room. The word "waltz" comes from theGerman word walzen, which means "to revolve." Famous composers of waltzesinclude Frédéric Chopin and Johann Strauss.The waltz is one of the most iconic forms of Western dance. Interestingly,though, the dance was controversial when it first began. Older generations ofthe aristocracy and religious leaders saw the waltz as an obscene and immoraldance, due to the proximity of the dancers. However, they surely soon realizedthe glitz and beauty of the dance form, as public dance halls in Europe began toopen in abundance. By the late 18th and early 19th centuries, waltzing anddancing were everywhere. Despite these reservations, the waltz gained the approval of perhaps the mostimportant figure: the Queen. Britain's Queen Victoria even took to the new styleherself, often waltzing with her husband Prince Albert. Following the American civil war of the mid-1800s, the waltz became a prominentfixture of the party scene, where American proponents of the dance developedtheir own styles. The most well-known of these is the Boston Waltz, a slowerversion of its (rapid) Venetian cousin, with elongated, gliding steps.Learn more about the history of the waltz here[http://www.dancefacts.net/dance-history/waltz-history/].