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Dehn, Matthew G-90-88-75-98-70-84.2%

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Gu, Zhen-70-80-90-70-98-81.6%

Gysberg, Kevin M-80-0-0-98-95-54.6%

Harp, Lacey N-80-91-90-80-98-87.8%

Hua, YunFei-80-91-90-80-98-87.8%

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Monson, Thomas J-90-90-0-95-80-71%

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Niyomchat, Pattarapong-98-98-98-98-98-98%

Oberle, Robert A-90-98-98-98-98-96.4%

Riebe, Monica A-0-0-0-0-0-0%

Scherer, Miranda D-92-90-95-92-80-89.8%

Schurr, Jennifer R-98-0-0-0-0-19.6%

Shaw, Douglas E-80-80-95-90-98-88.6%

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Vang, Starsha N-90-95-90-90-98-92.6%

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Zhang, Hui-98-98-98-98-98-98%

18th Century Music and Dance

Viennese Waltz

Viennese Waltz Video

 Viennese Waltz (German:Wiener Walzer) is the oldest of the current ballroom dances. It emerged in the second half of the 18th century from the German dance and the Ländler in Austria and was both popular and subject to criticism. The Waltzen, as written in a magazine from 1799, is performed by dancers who held on to their long gowns to prevent them from dragging or being stepped on. The dancers would lift their dresses and hold them high like cloaks and this would bring both their bodies under one cover. This action also required the dancers' bodies to be very close together and this closeness also attracted moral disparagement. Wolf published a pamphlet against the dance entitled "Proof that Waltzing is the Main Source of Weakness of the Body and Mind of our Generation" in 1797.

. It was the first ballroom dance performed in the closed hold or "waltz" position. The dance that is popularly known as the waltz is actually the English or slow waltz, danced at approximately 90 beats per minute with 3 beats to the bar (the international standard of 30 measures per minute), while the Viennese Waltz is danced at about 180 beats (58-60 measures) a minute. To this day however, in Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, and France, the words Walzer (German for "waltz"), still implicitly refer to the original dance and not the slow waltz.

Landler

The ländler is a folk dance in 3/4 time which was popular in Austria, south Germany and German Switzerland at the end of the 18th century.
It is a dance for couples which strongly features hopping and stamping. It was sometimes purely instrumental and sometimes had a vocal part, sometimes featuring yodeling.

Landler Dance-Sound of Music Play

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German Rulers & Government- 19th Century

"Germany, as a country, did not exist until 1871.  Before then, the area that would become Germany consisted of a number of independent states varying in size and power, ranging from kingdoms and grand duchies to principalities, cities and ecclesiastical states.  The first half of the nineteenth century, before the American Civil War, was a very turbulent time for this area of Europe." (Source, November 16, 2011)

1806 - Napoleon's armies impose French rule over much of Germany; Francis II declares abolition of Holy Roman Empire and adopts title of emperor of Austria.

Napoleon:

Francis II

1813 - Defeat of Napoleon at Battle of Leipzig.

Battle of Leipzig

1848 - Year of Revolutions; failure of liberals' attempt to unite Germany under democratic constitution; start of period of rapid industrialization.  

1871 - Otto von Bismarck achieves unification of Germany under leadership of Prussia; new German Empire's authoritarian constitution creates elected national parliament (Reichstag) but gives Kaiser (emperor) extensive powers.

Otto von Bismarck

1888 - Start of Wilhelm II's reign; start of trend towards colonial expansion and build-up of German navy to compete with Britain's; rapid growth of Germany's economic power.

 Wilhelm II

1890 - Growing workers' movement culminates in founding of Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). 

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