'Dance' as a
musical form is a smaller musical composition intended for the presentation of
dance. It can be used as an accompaniment for actual dance, but its main purpose is
music as such.
Dance can be part of a larger composition, such as
symphony or
ballet. In this case it is similar to the part of a
libretto that tells about a dance that happens according to the
plot.
Some well-known dances in music
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Sabre Dance by
Aram Khachaturian within ballet "
Gayane").
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Czardas in
Hungarian Rhapsodies by
Ferenc Liszt
★ Numerous pieces named
Slavonic Dance (#1, #2,...#10,...), by
AntonÃn Dvořák
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Habanera in
Carmen by
Georges Bizet
★ Spring
Khorovod, Dance of the Earth and Sacrificial Dance in
The Rite of Spring ballet by
Igor Stravinsky
See also
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Dance music