Dance music is music specially written for the accompaniment of dancing . It can be either a separate musical work, or is part of a musical arrangement . Performed dance music is divided into live dance music and recorded dance music . Also subdivided into slow music and fast music.
In the XVII century, during the Baroque period, for each type of dance (minuet, gavotte, saraband) there was a corresponding type of musical work, called by the name of the dance itself. Later, these types of music were separated from the performance of the dance as such, and became simply types of musical work, that is, here we are talking about dance as a genre of music: dance as a genre began to enter large classical works, such as sonatas and symphonies as one of parts, in addition, the suite genre is a work that is a sequence of several dances, usually seven.
In the 1970s the Disco genre appeared, a dance pop music named after discos for which it was recorded and performed. In the 1980s, electronic club music began to develop, which was written specifically for mass discotheques - raves . Also, closer to the beginning of the 90s, the techno genre separated from the dance music, which laid the foundation for all the world trance music from which in the 2000s such subspecies of electronic dance music like tech-trance, progressive-trance and so on and so forth.