Western Art Music
Contemporary Works
Dance Music
In addition to the recordings annotated in the bibliography, the following pieces or albums have been found to be useful in dance classes. The list reflects a variety of musical styles, moods and time periods. Several are featured in music textbook series which may be in your school. Others may abe available in school or home collections. This is intended only as a starter for dance music. Teachers may choose the ones they like best and go on to find others that fit their tastes.
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Composer |
Composition |
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Bartok |
Piano Works |
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Bizet |
Carmen |
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Borodin |
Polovtsian Dances |
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Brahms |
Hungarian Dancers |
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Chopin |
Mazurkas for the Piano |
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Copland |
Appalachian Spring |
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Debussy |
Petite Suite |
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Dvorák |
Slavonic Dances |
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Grieg |
Peer Gynt |
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Grofé |
Grand Canyon Suite
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Haydn |
Symphony 95 in C Minor
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Holst |
The Planets |
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Andree Huet |
Imaginations pour l'expression corporelle |
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Kodály |
Hary Janos Suite |
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Mussorgsky |
Night on Bald Mountain |
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Saint-Saëns |
Dance Macabre |
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Strauss |
Tritsch, Tratsch Polka |
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Stravinsky |
Circus Polka |
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Vaughan Williams |
Greensleeves |
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Composer |
Composition |
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James Galway |
Songs for the Flute |
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Dan Gibson |
Solitudes: Volume 12 Listen to the Loons |
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Jean Michelle Jarre |
Oxygene
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Mannheim Steamroller |
Fresh Aire
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Mike Oldfield |
The Killing Fields |
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Penguin Café |
Mine Album
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Steve Reich |
Early Works |
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Tangerine Dream |
Thief
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Tomita |
Tomita's Greatest Hits |
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Vangelis |
China
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Jade Warrior |
Floating World |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Variations |
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John Williams |
Star Wars |
Suggested sources for dance music:
Peter van Hogezand or Viki van Hogezand
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