The article focuses on the social and political implications of the ballet and social dance of the 17th and early 18th centuries. By the end of the 1660s, the idea of demonstration of French power through the allegorical ballets lost its importance, and the court dance functions were transferred to the balls. There, the dancers had to present themselves according to the social hierarchy, and in the manner appropriate to their rank. The fact that the dance ideal, which developed from the late 16th century, and reached its peak during the reign of Louis XIV, applied for the social dance deep into the 18th century, showed itself not only in the period ways of dance music performance, but also in its development.
The goal of this study was to investigate the structure of musical preferences in a sample set of participants from the Czech Republic (n = 521), differences in the structure of musical preferences among various age groups (16–50 years), and associations between these preferences and certain personality traits. Exploratory factor analysis revealed five dimensions of musical preference in all age groups. Further analysis addressed the question of how the dimensions of musical preference relate to personality traits, tracing the relation between musical preference and various dimensions in the ‘Big-Five’ personality model. The findings confirmed those of previous research conducted in the United States (by Rentfrow and Gosling in 2003), but revealed certain dissimilarities as well, resulting from specific features of culture in the Czech Republic. Also analyzed in the study are similarities and differences among various age groups.
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