dance form

noun

, Music.

1. the binary form used in most of the movements of the 18th-century suite.

Example Sentences

Passepied (B flat major) "pour Madame Redwen," short and simple, but very neat and graceful, and quite in dance form.

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Each national dance form has something more than a rhythm—it has an atmosphere.

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His tone-poems in the dance form (especially his mazurkas and polonaises) receive an unusual charm from their national colouring.

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She has been highly successful in compositions in dance form, managing these without a suggestion of the trivial.

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The "Invitation to the Dance," moreover, was the first salon piece idealized from a popular dance form.

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