Dance of the Hours

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Dance of the Hours is a comic ballet sequence from the opera "La Gioconda" by Amilcare Ponchielli, famously animated in Disney's Fantasia with dancing animals representing different times of day.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Dance of the Hours canonical 2
Danza delle ore 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ballet
comic ballet
orchestral intermezzo
basedOnWork La Gioconda
linked to: Mona Lisa
composer Amilcare Ponchielli
countryOfOrigin Italy
depicts dawn
day
night
times of day
twilight
featuredIn Fantasia
Fantasia (1940 film)
linked to: Fantasia
featuredInSegment Ballet of the Hours in Fantasia
linked to: Fantasia
firstPerformanceInWork La Gioconda premiere
genre ballet music
classical music
hasCatalogNumber from La Gioconda Act 3 ballet
hasCharacteristic contrasting moods
programmatic structure
waltz-like rhythms
hasDerivativeWork parody song "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!"
hasInstrumentation brass
celesta or piano
harp
percussion
strings
woodwinds
hasPart dawn section
daytime section
evening section
nighttime section
hasTitleInItalian Danza delle ore
linked to: Dance of the Hours
includedIn classical music concert repertoire
influenced popular culture depictions of classical ballet
language instrumental
movementOf Act 3 of La Gioconda
notableUse Fantasia
orchestration full symphony orchestra
originallyComposedFor opera ballet sequence
partOf La Gioconda
linked to: Mona Lisa
popularizedBy Fantasia hippo and alligator ballet
Walt Disney
publisher Ricordi
recordedBy numerous symphony orchestras
style Romantic
tonality major key sections
minor key sections
usedFor comic effect in animation

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Fantasia hasSegment Dance of the Hours
Dance of the Hours hasTitleInItalian Danza delle ore
linked to: Dance of the Hours
Amilcare Ponchielli hasPart Dance of the Hours