Adagio vs. Ballet

Adagionoun

(music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played rather slowly, leisurely and gracefully.

Balletnoun

A classical form of dance.

Adagionoun

(music) A passage having this mark.

Balletnoun

A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.

Adagionoun

(dance) A male-female duet or mixed trio ballet displaying demanding balance, spins and/or lifts.

Balletnoun

The company of persons who perform this dance.

Adagioadverb

(music) Played rather slowly.

Balletnoun

(music) A light part song, frequently with a fa-la-la chorus, common among Elizabethan and Italian Renaissance composers.

Adagioadjective

(music) Describing a passage having this mark.

Balletnoun

(heraldry) A bearing in coats of arms representing one or more balls, called bezants, plates, etc., according to colour.

Adagioadjective

Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.

Balletverb

To perform an action reminiscent of ballet dancing.

Adagionoun

A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn.

Balletnoun

An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.

Adagionoun

(music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully);

‘they played the adagio too quickly’;

Balletnoun

The company of persons who perform the ballet.

Adagionoun

a slow section of a pas de deux requiring great skill and strength by the dancers

Balletnoun

A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, - most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers; - also spelled ballett.

Adagioadjective

(of tempo) leisurely

Balletnoun

A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

Adagioadverb

slowly;

‘here you must play adagio’;

Balletnoun

a theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers

Balletnoun

music written for a ballet

Ballet

Ballet (French: [balɛ]) is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary.