This is an 1877 tune written by Mr. C. Nolf. I learned it from sheet music at http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm.a2315/.

Dodworth was a dance instructor who wrote a book on how to dance. In the book he made up a way to do the waltz in 5/4. C. Nolf wrote this song, which is a waltz in 5/4, so there would be music for people to use with Dodworth’s whacky dance.

I want people to reuse my music in videos, so copyright on this recording is Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 unported. Or pretty much any other license if you can be bothered to email me at lucas@gonze.com to ask.

I left a few little booboos in. They weren’t too bad. With a little editing this could be cleaned up to Playboy standards, so if you need edits to use the music feel free to ask.

Here’s straight up audio files, unencumbered by video:

• Dodworth’s Five Step Waltz (Ogg FLAC)
• Dodworth’s Five Step Waltz (MP3)
• Dodworth’s Five Step Waltz (Ogg Vorbis)
• Dodworth’s Five Step Waltz (AIFF)

This song scared the hell out of me when I first found it. The printout sat around for a long time before I got the courage up to try it. But as it turned out the writing has a comfortable and natural flow that carries you right along.