Giselle, created by French composer Adam, is an important work of early romantic ballet, which embodies the dramatic conception in music. In order to strengthen the expressive function of music, he first applied the principle of explicit motivation to ballet music in Giselle. Giselle described the love between young farmer Loire and rural girl Giselle. When Giselle learned that Loire was the Duke of albrecht of Silesia who was engaged to Princess Bathilde, he immediately fainted and died. After her death, she became a ghost, still remembering her old love with the count; When the count was surrounded by a group of female ghosts, Giselle saved his life. Giselle is a traditional ballet with two acts and sixteen divertimentos. After a short opening song, the grape farmers in the mountain village walked happily through the glade, playing country tunes on woodwind instruments. Then, the grand band played and announced the appearance of the duke. He disguised himself as a young farmer Loire and went to Giselle's farmhouse. He knocked on the door and no one answered. Then Giselle ran back from the Woods with the brisk melody on the stringed instrument.

Then, woodwind instruments and stringed instruments played a lyrical theme, describing the love of a young couple. This love theme runs through the whole play and plays a leading role. After the light melody of the stringed instrument reappeared, Hilary Ang, the keeper of the forest farm, took the next sentence on the stringed instrument to the stage. He also loves Giselle. He advised Giselle not to be deceived by Loire. Loire also threatened Hilarion to leave and forbade him to approach Giselle. Hilarion walked away. This ballet scene is represented by pantomime and dance on the stage.

Gabriela, created by French composer Delib, is an important work that marks the mature stage of romantic ballet. The music of gabriela is a masterpiece of traditional ballet music, with beautiful and vivid melody and clear orchestration. The story tells that young Franz was fascinated by the beautiful girl gabriela, which made his fiancee Swan Nilda jealous. Later, Nilda Swan revealed that gabriela was originally a doll made by toy manufacturer Gabriel ehlers. A couple got back together and became husband and wife. This ballet is divided into two acts and three scenes, and consists of twenty divertimentos. The final divertimento is a group of entertainment dances to celebrate the wedding.

In ballet, dance is generally divided into classical dance and figure dance. Classical dance has exquisite expression techniques and strong artistic generalization ability, while figure dance is full of life breath and can also show distinctive national color and personality. Recreational dance consists of a series of independent individual dances, which has nothing to do with the development of the plot. The purpose is to give the audience a beautiful enjoyment with a series of contrasting and colorful dances. The second act of gabriela depicts the wedding of Franz and Swan Nilda. This scene is dominated by entertainment dances, with eight dances in total: the first "Time Waltz" is a three-part waltz, with group dances and solo dances alternately, and the first and third paragraphs have loud bells ringing; The second song, Dance of Dawn, was danced by four dancers. Woodwind instruments, stringed instruments and harp played quiet music, which gradually entered a climax, leading to the third dance music "Prayer Dance". The "Prayer Dance" is composed of stringed instruments, woodwind instruments and harp with silence, playing a solemn and peaceful tune, accompanied by a dance by a man and a woman. The fourth song is "Dance of Labor", and the dynamic music announces that it is time to go to work; A fast-rotating sound pattern that describes the wheels of a spinning wheel turning constantly. The fifth "Wedding Dance" describes the custom scene of rural wedding, and Cupid, the god of love, also came to attend the wedding. The music is full of energy and has the rhythm of rotating dance. The sixth "Dance of Peace" is a large duet danced by two men and two women. After the woodwind instrument played a quiet introduction, a lyric andante for viola solo appeared. Followed by a short "festival dance", unrestrained and active music, accompanied by cheerful group dance. Finally, the large-scale group dance "Gallop", which is a fast double-beat round dance, has no jumping steps between sentences of each phrase. In the ballet of19th century, round dance, Galopeau, Mazzuca, Bologna and March are the most commonly used traditional dances.

There are often solos and duets in ballet, just like monologues and dialogues in drama. The duet in the fourth act of Don Quixote, composed by Polish composer Ming Kusi, is intended to express the fantasy of the protagonist in the novel Don Quixote by Spanish writer Cervantes, and is danced by the country girl Luo Ren Suo and her partner. Luo Rensuo is Don Quixote's imaginary lover, and he calls her "Beauty Dulcinea". This duet is about an imaginary beauty, but according to her true character, she is a rustic country girl. A duet is performed by a man and a woman. Music and dance have specific programs, which usually include four parts: slow dance, men's variation dance, women's variation dance and ending. When dancing slow dance, the actress, with the support of the actor, makes various postures and balanced movements. The next two variety dances are expressive solo dances. Finally, in the quick conclusion, it ends with a passionate duet. The duet of Don Quixote begins with a beautiful waltz, followed by a lyrical adagio accompanied by a slow dance. The subsequent men's variation dance is a short round dance. Women's variation dance is a lively double-beat dance. The ending gradually accelerated and came to an end. The actor joined in and became a duet. Ming Kusi is good at composing music closely related to dance movements. The duet of Don Quixote is his masterpiece of ballet music.

At the beginning of the 20th century, when romantic ballet became rigid, Russian choreographers, such as Fujin, Nikinsky and Maxin, innovated ballet. The Fairy directed by Fu Jin takes Chopin Niana, an orchestral suite adapted from Chopin's seven piano pieces by Russian composer Glazunov, as ballet music, and uses dance to express the artistic conception of music. "The Fairies" cancelled all vulgar decorations and stylized dance design. The actors are all dressed in white clothes, and their graceful dances are full of poetry and painting, and the dance movements are in harmony with the music rhythm. 1909 After the premiere in Paris. It was rated as "restoring the true spirit of romanticism" and is still a reserved program of traditional ballet.

Fairy has no story or dramatic plot. The choreographer made first-class music and dance according to Chopin's Niana. Chopin's seven piano pieces, including a prelude and a serenade, two Mazzuca dances and three waltzes. Among them, three waltzes are composed of solo, duet and group dance according to the character and artistic conception of music. A complex three-step waltz in G-flat major, with lively ends and melodious middle, is accompanied by a lithe and graceful female solo. Dancers transform beautiful and vivid melodies into delicate and flexible dances, including jumping in the air, stepping in rotation, hitting legs and other jumping actions. Music and dance complement each other and blend together. Waltz in Rondo style in C sharp minor, with poetic duet. The music is divided into three paragraphs, and every six paragraphs are divided into two short paragraphs. It's all slow before and fast after. The dancers alternate between lyrical slow dance and brisk round dance. In slow dance. Show beautiful dances such as lifting and "spreading your wings in the wind". The so-called "spreading your wings in the wind" is a modeling posture in which the upper body leans forward and one leg is raised horizontally backwards.

The large-scale complex three-step waltz in E flat major is a gorgeous dance music. There are cheerful group dances at both ends, and the soloist in the middle comes out alone to perform a short variety dance. This is the one last dance of the whole ballet, which echoes the opening "Nocturne" and is colorful. Fu Jin, the choreographer of fairies, is an innovator of romantic ballet and a pioneer of modern ballet. Modern ballet in the 20th century tries to get rid of the traditional ballet programs and express personal thoughts, feelings and life experiences in a natural and free form, often combining various modernist music. There are various schools of modern ballet music.