dance music

1. (Music, other) music that is suitable for dancing

2. (Pop Music) Also called: dance pop music with a strong electronic rhythm

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Noun	1.	dance music - a genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing ballroom music, danceroom music popular music, popular music genre - any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)
	2.	dance music - music to dance to music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner beguine - music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance bolero - music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance carioca - music composed for dancing the carioca conga - music composed for dancing the conga flamenco - guitar music composed for dancing the flamenco gavotte - music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte habanera - music composed in duple time for dancing the habanera hornpipe - music for dancing the hornpipe gigue, jig - music in three-four time for dancing a jig landler - music in triple time for dancing the landler mazurka - music composed for dancing the mazurka minuet - a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite paso doble - music in march time composed for dancing the paso doble; often played at bull fights pavan, pavane - music composed for dancing the pavane polka - music performed for dancing the polka quadrille - music for dancing the quadrille reel - music composed for dancing a reel rhumba, rumba - syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba samba - music composed for dancing the samba saraband - music composed for dancing the saraband tango - music written in duple time for dancing the tango tarantella - music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella techno - a style of fast heavy electronic dance music usually without vocals waltz - music composed in triple time for waltzing ragtime, rag - music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano) jazz - a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands kwela - a kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans; includes a whistle among its instruments

Translations

tánczene

musica da ballo

dance music

n → musica da ballo

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The orchestra plunged into dance music and the laces of the dancer fluttered and flew in the glare of gas jets.

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At a word from Kirkpatrick, d'Arnault spread himself out over the piano, and began to draw the dance music out of it, while the perspiration shone on his short wool and on his uplifted face.

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When they refused she began turning over the sheets of dance music which lay upon the piano.

As very soon she had played the only pieces of dance music she could remember, she went on to play an air from a sonata by Mozart.

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In the bar in which Strickland and Nichols sat a mechanical piano was loudly grinding out dance music. Round the room people were sitting at table, here half a dozen sailors uproariously drunk, there a group of soldiers; and in the middle, crowded together, couples were dancing.

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