Dance

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A Dance as a musical genre is any musical composition intended for dance.^{[citation needed]} It can be used as an accompaniment for actual dance, but its main purpose is music as such.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

Some well-known dances in music

• Sabre Dance by Aram Khachaturian within ballet "Gayane").^{[citation needed]}
• Czardas in Hungarian Rhapsodies by Ferenc Liszt^{[citation needed]}
• Numerous pieces named Slavonic Dance (#1, #2,...#10,...), by Antonín Dvořák^{[citation needed]}
• Habanera in Carmen by Georges Bizet^{[citation needed]}
• Spring Khorovod, Dance of the Earth and Sacrificial Dance in The Rite of Spring ballet by Igor Stravinsky^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Dance music