DANCE MUSIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dance music mean? 

• DANCE MUSIC (noun)
  The noun DANCE MUSIC has 1 sense:

1. a genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing

  Familiarity information: DANCE MUSIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DANCE MUSIC (noun)

Meaning:

A genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

ballroom music; dance music; danceroom music

Hypernyms ("dance music" is a kind of...):

popular music; popular music genre (any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dance music"):

beguine (music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance)

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)

rag; ragtime (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)

polka (music performed for dancing the polka)

pavan; pavane (music composed for dancing the pavane)

paso doble (music in march time composed for dancing the paso doble; often played a bull fights)

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)

kwela (a kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans; includes a whistle among its instruments)