Jazz vs. Ballet

Jazznoun

(music genre) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.

Balletnoun

A classical form of dance.

Jazznoun

Energy, excitement, excitability.

Balletnoun

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

Jazznoun

The substance or makeup of a thing.

‘What jazz were you referring to earlier?’; ‘What is all this jazz lying around?’;

Balletnoun

The company of persons who perform this dance.

Jazznoun

Unspecified thing(s).

Balletnoun

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

Jazznoun

(with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.

Balletnoun

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

Jazznoun

Nonsense.

‘Stop talking jazz.’;

Balletverb

To perform an action reminiscent of ballet dancing.

Jazzverb

To destroy.

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.

Jazzverb

To play (jazz music).

Balletnoun

The company of persons who perform the ballet.

Jazzverb

To dance to the tunes of jazz music.

Balletnoun

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

Jazzverb

To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite

Balletnoun

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

Jazzverb

To complicate.

Balletnoun

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

Jazzverb

To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.

Balletnoun

music written for a ballet

Jazzverb

(intransitive) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.

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.

Jazzverb

To distract/pester.

Jazznoun

A type of music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles, but generally featuring intricate rhythms, improvisation, prominent solo segments, and great freedom in harmonic idiom played frequently in a polyphonic style, on various instruments including horn, saxophone, piano and percussion, but rarely stringed instruments.

Jazznoun

empty or insincere or exaggerated talk; as, don't give me any of that jazz.

Jazznoun

A style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands.

Jazznoun

empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk;

‘that's a lot of wind’; ‘don't give me any of that jazz’;

Jazznoun

a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

Jazznoun

a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands

Jazzverb

play something in the style of jazz

Jazzverb

have sexual intercourse with;

‘This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm’; ‘Adam knew Eve’; ‘Were you ever intimate with this man?’;

Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music, linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage.