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Danza Espanola No. 1 from La Vida Breve, by Manuel de Falla, 1876-1946

Danza Espanola No. 1 (La Vida Breve)    
Orchestra, Horst Sohm, (four Spanish Dancers with hand castanets)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdX9x70R0P0&feature=relatedSpanish Chamber

Symphony No. 41 Minuet, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791

Symphony No. 41 (Mozart) 3.Menuetto Allegretto   
Picture of Mozart on screen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IK4Ah8mmgs

Andaluza from Tres Danzas Espanolas, by Enrique Granados, 1867-1916

Symphonic version:
Andaluza from Tres Danzas Espanolas
  
Good pictures of individual instruments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGKdVULkKeg

Classical Guitar version:
Granados Spanish Dance No.5 (Andaluza)  
Art work, several dancers, with pictures of Granados and Segovia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17Fh7LMMzhc

Pizzicato Polka, by Johann Strauss, 1825-1899

Pizzicato Polka  
by Accademia Concertante d'Archi di Milano
Faster tempo – adult orchestra; playful stop and then fast ending
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUVapM66UKc&feature=related

Pizzicato Polka   
by the Youth chamber orchestra "Bourgas", Conductor Levon Manukyan.
Young musicians; Russian words on screen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5KRqc7Hud4

Ritual Dance of Fire from El Amor Brujo, by Manuel de Falla, 1876-1946

Ritual Fire Dance   
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUir35l5y8U&feature=related

The Ritual Fire Dance  
Artur Rubenstein playing piano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj6_5qWZCDY

Sandpaper Ballet, by Leroy Anderson, 1908-1975

Sandpaper Ballet  
3 percussion section members playing sand blocks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doV2j3_Amgo&feature=related

Sandpaper Ballet   
Anderson’s picture with baton onscreen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1dQS53OIVA&feature=related

Trepak, by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1840-1891

Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite - Russian Dance Trepak  
Tchaikovsky picture on screen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ISRMSIyX8

Trepak (Russian Dance) from The Nutcracker (Mariinsky Ballet)  
Classic ballet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvu7F3bTJq8&feature=related