The term dance music usually implies strong pulses and rhythmic patterns that are organised into repeated metric groupings, synchronising exactly with those of the dance, as does the mood of the music. The term is usually applied to popular-music genres.
Music and dancing moved into the ballroom in the 16th century when formal dances such as the gavotte, minuet, courante, cotillon, and allemande were the domain of the upper classes, who required that orchestras be hidden from view. It...