从起源上来说,华尔兹本是一种劳动的节奏。这是人们第一次在民间舞中接受的劳动节奏。许多民间舞都形成过劳动的节奏,而我们所有的舞蹈节奏则都植根于农民的文化。但是从布朗莱的双拍子(Branle Double)开始,我们采用的各种节奏都可能被称作是“祭祀”的节奏,即它们都不是对某种实用主义行为做出的反应,而是某种纯舞蹈,直到我们形成了华尔兹。而兰德尔(Landler)这种华尔兹的德国农民舞源头, Waltz was originally a labor-based rhythm. This is the first rhythm of labor that people have accepted in folk dance. Many folk dance forms the rhythm of labor, and all our dance rhythms are rooted in peasant culture. But beginning with Branley’s Branle Double, the various rhythms we use may be called rhythms of “ritual sacrifices”, ie they are not a response to some pragmatism, but instead A pure dance until we formed a waltz. And the source of the German peasant dance, Waltz, like Landler,