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Music for a solo instrument is often, though not always, used to accompany dancing or is derived from dance music. In Europe and the Americas, the violin or comparable fiddle is widely used to play dance music; for instance, the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle player performs rhythmically complex polyphonic music (i.e., having multiple melodic lines) to accompany the halling, gangar, or springar dances. In Scotland, Ireland, and rural North America, the violin is favoured for accompanying country dances. It is known that a single fiddler played for dancing among the upper classes in medieval Europe and also probably among the common ...(100 of 15522 words)