• The Wiener Waltz is a social and competitive dance

• It is one of the most traditional dances in the world

• It has about 60 beats per minute

Vienna Waltz

• The dance is one of the fastest and oldest in the world

• The Waltz is originated from the "German Dance"

• Today's “guard dance” originates from the troops of the Girl Revue Theatres of the 1920s and 1930s

Guard Dance

• It is originated by village people and named “Schuhplattler“

Schuhplattler

• “Schuhplattler” is the name of a Bavarian dance

• The dance is named after “platteln” which means “beating“

We should also mention that the dances in style clothing and sequence are regionally different

Traditional German

Music

Jodler

• Probably the most famous kind of song is the “Jodler“ (engl. yodeling)

• It is a form of singing that involves singing an extended note which rapidly and repeatedly changes in pitch

Yodeling is typical of Bavaria, but it is also popular in Austria and Switzerland.

Dieter Bohlen:• Dieter Bohlen is a German

songwriter, singer, musician, producer, entertainer, TV personality

• Bohlen is best known for being part of popular pop-duo Modern Talking

Modern Talking:• Modern Talking is

the1980s German synthpop duo of Thomas Anders and Dieter Bohlen

• It was Germany's most successful pop duo,and they had a number of hit singles, reaching the top five in many countries

Nena:• Gabriele Susanne

Kerner better known as Nena, is a German singer and actress.

• She rose to international fame in 1983 with the antiwar song "99 Luftballons"

• He describes his music as a mixture between pop and rap, which he calls "Raop"

Cro:•Cro is a German newcomer

•He is a rapper, singer, producer and designer

Germany is also well-known for its many

composers of classical music

Ludwig van Beethoven

Johann Sebastian Bach

Georg Friedrich Händel

Franz Schubert

Johannes Brahms

Richard Wagner

• He is regarded as the composer who

performed the music of the “Viennese Classic”

• It is classical music at its highest development

• He composed the famous “Symphony No. 9 (Freude schöner Götterfunken)“ which has been chosen to be the anthem of the European Union

Ludwig van Beethoven

Richard Wagner • lived 1813 – 1883• composed operas lasting

up to four hours• His themes were taken

mainly from German history and mythology

• The Bavarian King Ludwig was one of his biggest fans and paid him a lot for his work