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ballet music

n. Music composed primarily to accompany a ballet performance

Usage examples of "ballet music".

The song was unmistakably a lament, long drifting phrases in a minor key, with many repetitions that seemed to go nowhere, reminding Ellin of some twentieth-century ballet music by a man named.

At the same time, I studied ballet music and looked forward with greater earnestness to the time when I could venture to write an opera myself.

Playing the rest of the Tchaikovsky ballet music, maybe, while he waited for us to get through dying.

He's referring to ballet music (in English, Rite of Spring) by Igor Stravinsky evoking an old Russian pagan legend, in which a dance is performed for the fertility of the soil.