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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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