dance music en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) Music composed to accompany social dancing.
From all sides her gift for playing the piano was insisted upon, and she had to consent. As very soon she had played the only pieces of dance music she could remember, she went on to play an air from a sonata by Mozart.
1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XII, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC:In the bar in which Strickland and Nichols sat a mechanical piano was loudly grinding out dance music.
1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLVII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
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(abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, qualifier:modern usage, uncountable) Ellipsis of electronic dance music.
alt of electronic dance music
Britpop had revitalised rock, and an unprecedented explosion in dance music – sparked off by a second consecutive sunny and idyllic Glastonbury – transformed how Britain thought, listened, partied and came down afterwards.
2015 June 28, “It was 20 years ago today: the year British dance music went wild”, in The Observer:
Relateds
ballet music · vernacular dance
Translations (7)
fr musique entraînante (music composed to accompany social dancing) · it musica da ballo (music composed to accompany social dancing) · ro muzică de dans (music composed to accompany social dancing) · de Tanzmusik (music composed to accompany social dancing) · hu tánczene (music composed to accompany social dancing) · ka საცეკვაო მუსიკა (music composed to accompany social dancing) · fi tanssimusiikki (music composed to accompany social dancing)