The musical backdrop creates a mood or atmosphere for the dance that will color how the audience sees and experiences it.
The rhythm, or pattern of beats in the music, can influence the speed and phrasing of the movement..
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.
It can be either a whole piece or part of a larger musical arrangement.
In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance music..
Electronic dance music is typically composed using synthesizers and computers, and rarely has any physical instruments.
Instead, this is replaced by analogue and digital electronic sounds, with a 4/4 beat..
There's even a dispute over the exact title.
Yet “It's a Small World,” also known as “It's a Small, Small World” and “It's a Small World (After All),” is very likely the most played song in music history — nearly 50 million times..
Spotify defines danceability as an attribute that "measures how suitable a song is for dancing based on a combination of musical elements including tempo, rhythm stability, beat strength, and overall regularity"..
In a sense, any song that ever got any one person moving in any perceptible direction is a dance song
The Beatles made great dance songs — as did Slayer
Nearly all the hip-hop and reggae ever made is great dance music
But to make our list of The 200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time, a song had to be part of “dance music culture
”Let the Music Play –•– Shannon 32
He’s The Greatest Dancer –•– Sister Sledge 33
Best Of My Love –•– The Emotions 34 Shame –•– Evelyn Champagne King 35Upside Down –•– Diana Ross 36
Dance To The Music –•– Sly & The Family Stone 37
Heart Of Glass –•– Blondie 38And The Beat Goes On –•– The Whispers 39
Love Train –•– The O’Jays 40
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