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Waltz Quadrille
Old-Time waltz;
ARTIST: Gustav Erdmann {b. ca. 1882} (Wisconsin) [Reiner & Anick]. Reiner & Anick (Old Time Fiddling Across America), 1989; pg. 127.
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes
EARLIEST DATE: 1800s
RECORDING INFO:
SOURCES: Kuntz; Gustav Erdmann {b. ca. 1882} (Wisconsin) [Reiner & Anick]. Reiner & Anick (Old Time Fiddling Across America), 1989; pg. 127.
NOTES: The Waltz Quadrille was a popular dance of the late 1800s. The title is a floating title used for a variety of melodies including the Good Night Waltz. The lyrics at the bottom are from Andrew Kuntz and he relates this to a version from Christeson.
Here is more info from a variety of sources:
A Waltz Quadrille (1893)
By the end of the 19th century, quite a number of quadrilles were being published that didn't follow the earlier form of having multiple separate figures. Although this dance does have two distinct dance parts, the original instructions (which may be seen here) are clear that they should be treated as one long figure:
Play an ordinary waltz and do not stop between the numbers.
The source of the dance is The Prompter’s Handbook by J.A. French, published in Boston in 1893. I haven't looked for any other sources for this particular set of figures - it's a trivial little quadrille which I reconstructed in order to have a late-evening set dance that was easy and provided an excuse for plenty of waltzing.
A Waltz-Quadrille
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
From Poems of Passion (1883)
The band was playing a waltz-quadrille,
I felt as light as a wind-blown feather,
As we floated away, at the caller's will,
Through the intricate, mazy dance together.
Like mimic armies our lines were meeting,
Slowly advancing, and then retreating,
All decked in their bright array;
And back and forth to the music's rhyme
We moved together, and all the time
I knew you were going away.
1939 Cowboy Dances:
Waltz Quadrille
(A great favorite. Can be sung to the old tune "Sweet Evelina" or see special music. In some communities all four couples waltz once.
around the set as soon as music commences and without a rail Then when each returns to place the caller sings.)
THE CALL:
a) First couple down center And there they divide
b) The lady back center And the gent stay outside.
c) Now honor your partners
d) And don't be afraid,
e) And swing on the corners with a waltz promenade, all Same couple down center
(And it is all repeated three more times until each gentleman gets his own lady again and waltzes her back to place.)
Repeat entire for second, third, and fourth couples.
Kuntz: WALTZ QUADRILLE [1]. American, Waltz. G Major. Standard tuning. ABCD. A generic-titled medley for a dance form called the waltz quadrille. Paul Gifford knows the waltz-quadrille as a singing call from the 1920’s, and believes it may have been one of the first of the genre. See the similar "Waltz Quadrille" [3]. Source for notated version: Zeke Holdren (Lincoln, Nebraska) [Christeson]. R.P. Christeson (Old Time Fiddler’s Repertory), 1973, vol. 1; No. 245, pg. 204.
WALTZ QUADRILLE [3]. American, Waltz. USA, Wisconsin. G Major. Standard tuning. AB or AABB. The tune bears some resemblance to a Nebraska waltz quadrille in Christeson (1973, Vol. 1, No. 245, pg. 204). These words were collected with the tune:
Give me‑ee that man that'll never get drunk,
That'll never go out on a spree;
That'll stay the whole night, what'll stay with the wife,
And right rock the baby to sleep.
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