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Repetitive songs contain a large proportion of repeated words or phrases. Simple repetitive songs are common in many cultures as widely spread as the Caribbean, [1] Southern India [2] and Finland. [3] The best-known examples are probably children's songs. Other repetitive songs are found, for instance, in African-American culture from the days ...
This is a list of dance categories, different types, styles, or genres of dance. For older and more region-oriented vernacular dance styles, see List of ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin .
Suite – Set of instrumental compositions, typically in dance form, played in a sequence. Theme and variations – Form where a main theme is followed by a series of variations that alter its melody, harmony, rhythm, or timbre. Double variation – Composition where two themes are alternated and varied.
Vogue (dance) Bedroom production; Children's music; Computer music. Hyperpop; Internet meme; Dance music. Slow dance; Drug use in music; Incidental music or music for stage and screen: music written for the score of a film, play, musicals, or other spheres, such as filmi, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes and others; Independent ...
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Dance music works often bear the name of the corresponding dance, e.g. waltzes, the tango, the bolero, the can-can, minuets, salsa, various kinds of jigs and the breakdown. Other dance forms include contradance, the merengue (Dominican Republic), and the cha-cha-cha. Often it is difficult to know whether the name of the music came first or the ...
A section from Johann Strauss' Waltz from Die Fledermaus. A waltz, [a] probably deriving from German Ländler, is dance music in triple meter, often written in 3 4 time.A waltz typically sounds one chord per measure, and the accompaniment style particularly associated with the waltz is (as seen in the example to the right) to play the root of the chord on the first beat, the upper notes on the ...
Ballet (French:) is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary.