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This issue grew more pronounced in Ravel’s two-piano arrangement of his La valse.—Dallas News,
30 June 2022 More controversial was the third movement, a valse triste founded on an Italianate singing line.—
John Von Rhein,
chicagotribune.com,
12 May 2017
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from French, borrowed from German Walzer — more at waltz entry 1