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Definition of Dance band
1. Noun. A group of musicians playing popular music for dancing.
Generic synonyms: Musical Group, Musical Organisation, Musical Organization
Specialized synonyms: Big Band, Combo, Jazz Band, Jazz Group, Rock Band, Rock Group, Steel Band
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dance Band
Literary usage of Dance band
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of Music by William Smythe Babcock Mathews, Emil Liebling (1896)
"It. An Italian country dance. Band. A number of instrumental performers playing
in concert on their respective instruments. Band, brass. ..."
2. The Musical Guide: Containing a Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of Terms by Rupert Hughes (1903)
"A country dance. band. A group of instrumentalists, usually a military band,
sometimes an orchestra ; oftener ..."
3. Free a Marine to Fight: Women Marines in World War 2 by Mary V. Stremlow (1996)
"... Grady (saxophone and clarinet) and Louise Hensinger (Sousaphone and dance band
vocalist) had to get up before the others and go over to the room and ..."
4. Adventure Guide to St. Martin & St. Barts by Lynne M. Sullivan (2003)
"... bolero, and merengue with an African accent, using instruments they make
themselves). Colors (a dance band playing reggae, jazz, funk, and blues), ..."
5. The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis: With Notes Adapted to the by Xenophon, Morris Hicky Morgan (1896)
"[xop<is], dance, Lat. saltó, iv. 7. 16, v. 4. 17. \opos, ó [с/. Eng. choir,
chorus], dance, band of dancers, chorus, tragic or comic, v. 4. 12. ..."
6. A Stem Dictionary of the English Language: For Use in Elementary Schools by John Kennedy (1890)
"... which is situated under the cartilage of the breast-bone). G. chon- droa.
Chor—dance, band of singers ..."
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