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classical ballet | A formal, stylized dance form that evolved in seventeenth-century France.
| | | | modern dance | A contemporary American dance form, less stylized than classical ballet, although today many dancers and choreographers combine the two techniques.
| | | | traditionalist | A composer who makes no radical departures from the conceptions of earlier music.
| | | | neoromantic | A contemporary composer whose music reveals nineteenth-century melodic, harmonic, and expressive characteristics.
| | | | Harlem Renaissance | A cultural movement centering in Harlem in the 1920s in which African American artists in every field achieved high art.
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