He usually wound up lifting the waltz tunes and recycling them for use by the family dance band.

What makes the piece unusual is that (the first waltz tune excepted) all three dances use the same melodic theme.

It is like a waltz tune, eddying in and out, round and round.

That's true to life - but we can't have Titanic sinking to a waltz tune, for heaven's sake.

The music is a faux European waltz tune.

He was humming one of the waltz tunes and, coming to me, put his arms about me and tried to dance round the room with me.

However, most people thought of him as the composer of a simple waltz tune called The Bells of Yale.

He turned hurriedly to his musicians and they struck up a little waltz tune, light gracious accompaniment to our festivities.

The piano was playing a waltz tune and he could hear the skirts sweeping against the drawing-room door.

Irony is the ability of one thing to seem to be several other, and often contradictory, things - Mr. Schuman's chameleonlike waltz tunes, for example.