Russia's importance to ballet continued in the twentieth century thanks to the forward thinking Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes dancers.

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We've got cantatas, sonatas, ballets, things such as this, and we'll get to each of those in turn.

清唱剧,奏鸣曲,和芭蕾舞曲,诸如此类,我们会陆续学习

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Jennifer Homans says that "La Sylphide" and "Giselle" were the first modern ballets.

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Copland later wrote the music for two ballets about the American West.

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Diaghilev's Russian ballets include "The Firebird" and "Petrouchka."

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One of his famous ballets,"La Bayadere,"

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