List of Dance and Music Wordles

with poetry and pipeweed thrown in for the Hobbits (and Gandalf too)
Curated by @Documentalista

Previous solutions may be included: they have not been checked !!
for more lists see also https://rentry.co/wordle-meta-list

MUSIC ROW 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🎢🎼🎡🎻🎹 MONTH

The Calendar

this list of Adopted words is complete.
look below for potential theme-related pairable words.

KYRIE @Jennie October 1st
BANJO @Henrik October 2nd
BLUES @VVMP October 3rd
CAROL @Adsy October 4th
RUMBA @Ad Absurdum October 5th
CELLO @Jenny (QLD) October 6th
CRWTH @Rad (Wales) October 7th
CONGA @Quite Contrary (SF) October 8th
TAIKO @Kenny (New Jersey) October 9th
DISCO @JR (Melb) October 10th
CANON @Documentalista October 11th
ETUDE @Wendy (Vancover) October 12th
FLUTE @Jay (Forest Hills) October 13th
FUGUE @JennyWren (Kernow) October 14th
LYRIC @Jn (Chicago) October 15th
SUITE @Jennie October 16th
PEDAL @Bill G October 17th
FOLKY @KimmyAnn October 18th
POLKA @Myle..na & @Myle October 19th
SAMBA @Rachel October 20th
SITAR @SamplesDriscoll October 21st
SCALE @Rosie (NY) October 22nd
SHAWM @Gray in SB October 23rd
CHIME @Sandy (Mobile Bay) October 24th
TENOR @David Kalish October 25th
TRILL @WT(Singapore) October 26th
LARGO @David Bell (UK) October 27th
MINOR @ Fiona (Warrington) October 28th
GIGUE @Andrew (Luxembourg) October 29th
DOBRO @Z (Alphareta) October 30th
DIRGE @Bill (Ireland) October 31st

Music Wordle: theme and words from @Jennie (Perth) and friends

when variations in spelling exist, they are on the same line.
Check also Dancing Wordles below

see @Jennie's first invitation and replies here: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/421va1
see Jennie's second invitation and replies here: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/422jju
see final list here: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/423ct0

Stricken out words are adopted

  1. AGOGO
  2. ALBUM
  3. ALTOS
  4. BANJO
  5. BEBOP
  6. BUGLE
  7. BONGO
  8. BURRU style of drumming used in Jamaican miusic
  9. CANON
  10. CAROL
  11. CELLO
  12. CHIME
  13. CHOIR
  14. CHORD
  15. COBZA Romanian stringed instrument
  16. CRWTH Welsh stringed instrument
  17. DIRGE
  18. DOBRO Acoustic guitar with steel resonating discs jnder the bridge
  19. ELEGY
  20. ETUDE
  21. FLUTE
  22. FOLKY
  23. FORTE
  24. FUGUE
  25. FUNKY
  26. GAITA traditional bagpipe kf Galicia
  27. GENRE
  28. GUSLA GUSLE GUSLI slavic multi+stringed plucked instrument
  29. GUQIN 🎼 Chinese zither
  30. JAZZY
  31. KAZOO
  32. KYRIE
  33. LARGO musical direction: slow tempo and majestic style
  34. LENTO musical direction: slow tempo
  35. LYRIC
  36. MAJOR
  37. METRE METER
  38. MBIRA
  39. MESTO musical direction: sadly
  40. METAL
  41. MEZZO
  42. MINOR
  43. MINIM
  44. MOTIF
  45. MUSIC
  46. OPERA
  47. ORGAN
  48. PEDAL
  49. PIANO
  50. PITCH
  51. PSALM
  52. QUENA South-American Flute
  53. REBEC Medieval bowed stringed instrument
  54. RECIT
  55. REVUE
  56. RONDO
  57. RUMBA
  58. SCALE
  59. SCORE
  60. SHARP
  61. SHAWM Medieval and Renaissance double-reed woodwind
  62. SHENG a Chinese form of mouth organ with seventeen bamboo reed pipes
  63. SITAR
  64. STAFF STAVE music notation
  65. SUITE
  66. SWING
  67. SYNTH
  68. TABLA Indian hand drums
  69. TANGO
    1.TAIKOJapanese Barrel-shaped drum
  70. TEMPO
  71. TENOR
  72. TONAL
  73. TRILL
  74. TUNER
  75. VEENA
  76. VIOLA
  77. VOCAL
  78. VOICE
  79. YODEL

Dancing

  1. BEBOP
  2. BELLY DANCE
  3. BOOGY woogy
  4. BOREE
  5. BOSSA NOVAE /NOVAS
  6. BREAK DANCE
  7. BUTOH (style of Japanese modern dance, dancers are covered in body paint)
  8. CAPER
  9. CONGA
  10. CUECA
  11. DAISY CHAIN (intransitive. To form a β€˜daisy chain’ of people (in a dance, etc.).
  12. DANCE BANDS
  13. DANSE
  14. DISCO
  15. FIRKs (intransitive. To move about briskly; to dance, jig; to flaunt or frisk about: to be lively, frisky, or β€˜jiggish’. Also to firk it. Obsolete.)
  16. FLING (Scottish. To caper, dance. ...unfortunately its past tense FLANG Is not accepted )
  17. FLISK (To move or dance about in a frolicsome way; to frisk)
  18. FLOSS
  19. FOLIA (Spanish dance similar to Fandango)
  20. FONDU (Ballet movement)
  21. GABBA (harsh, aggressive type of house music originating in Rotterdam, characterized by an extremely fast dance beat)
  22. GALOP
  23. GAVOT
  24. GARBA (Gujarati dance)
  25. ~~GIGUE~,
  26. GOPAK (a lively Ukrainian dance in 2/4 time
  27. HAKAs (Māori ceremonial dance )
  28. HORAs (Israeli dance)
  29. HULAs (Hawaiian )
  30. JALEO (Andalusian )
  31. JINKs (orig Scottish Intransitive verb. To wheel or fling about in dancing; now mostly used in rugby or aeronautics for to move or dart with sudden turns;
  32. JAUNT (Scottish )
  33. JUKEs (dance to the music of a juke box e.g.)
  34. KWELA (Southern Africa)
  35. KRUMP (dance, esp. to hip-hop music, in a style characterized by rapid, exaggerated movements of the arms and legs)
  36. LIMBO
  37. LINDY hop
  38. MAMBO
  39. MBUBE (A style of male choral music, which combines traditional Zulu song with American gospel music, and is often performed to slow dance movements)
  40. MUDRA
  41. NATYA (Indian dance-drama)
  42. PASSÉ PIEDS
  43. PAVAN
  44. POLKA
  45. PRANK
  46. QUICK STEPs (originally a kind of reel, now typically a fast foxtrot in 4/4 time)
  47. QUICK TIMEs
  48. RAGGA
  49. REVEL
  50. ROBOT
  51. RONDE
  52. RUMBA
  53. SALSA
  54. SAMBA
  55. SHAKE BOOTY
  56. SONGO
  57. STOMP
  58. STRUT (e.g. D'you wanna shake, strut, shimmy, jive, twist, waltz, mash potato, tango, tap or conga? Time Out 8 August 67/1 1975)
  59. SWING
  60. TWIRL
  61. TWIST
  62. VALSE
  63. VOGUE
  64. VOLTA
  65. VOLTE
  66. WALTZ
  67. WHIRL
  68. WORMs the Worm is a break dance move

PS pity we cant use (too long) TRENCH MORE (An old English country dance, of a lively or boisterous nature; perhaps identical with the cushion dance or Omnium Gatherum)

Poetry words

  1. BARDs
  2. CANTO
  3. CHANT
  4. CHANTe FABLE
  5. DITTY
  6. DRAPA
  7. DREAM POEMs
  8. ENVOY
  9. ENVOI
  10. EPICS
  11. EPODE
  12. ELEGY
  13. GESTE
  14. IDYLL
  15. KOWEs** (A β€˜tail’, tag, or additional short line after a couplet or at the end of a stanza of verse)
  16. LAYEs
  17. LILTs
  18. LYRIC POESY
  19. METRE METER
  20. METRO (A metrical poem or verse)
  21. NONET
  22. OCTET
  23. ODIST
  24. QUIRE** (small book or pamphlet, (also) a short poem, treatise, etc., which is or could be contained in such a book)
  25. RAPSO (Trinidad poem used in calypso)
  26. RHYME
  27. HALVE RHYME
  28. RHYME ROYAL** (consisting of stanzas of seven lines of iambic pentameters, rhyming ababbcc)
  29. RIGHT METRE VERSE (A correct metrical verse)
  30. RUNOs (In Finland: a short poem or song on an epic or legendary subject; eg Kalevala)
  31. SLOKA (couplet or distich of Sanskrit verse, each line containing sixteen syllables)
  32. STAVE STAFF(section or division of a poem, song, etc.)
  33. STICH (A portion or division of prose or verse writing, of a measured or average length; a line, verse.
  34. TANKA (from Japanese: a verse which consists of thirty-one syllables, the first and third lines containing five and the other three lines seven syllables. it is also a religious scroll from Tibetanan)
  35. TOAST
  36. VERSE

Tobacco Wordles

BACCA
BACCY BLUNT
BRIER
CLAYs
CIGAR
DRUNK WORTs
FLAKE
FUNKs
GAGEs
(a pipe a pipeful)
GREAT PRIOR HERBs
MAVIS
(a kind of tobacco)
PRICK tobacco (Tobacco made up into a small roll)
PRISE BEAMs (lever used in packing tobacco)
PRISE HOUSE (A building housing equipment for pressing and packing tobacco leaves)
RAPEE (form of RAPPEE a strong tobacco originally obtained by rasping the leaves)
RESIN
SHAGs
(also a dance, also type of carpet, also ...)
SHANK BOWLs (part of a pipe)
STEMs BOWLs
SMOKE
SNOUS
(powdered tobacco)
SNUFF
SNUSH
STRIG
(Also, the projection under the bowl of a tobacco-pipe)
SWEAT ROOM (A room in which tobacco is sweated.)
THREE PIPES (problem)
WEEDs
WHIFF

Earworms of the Eighties [September 2024]

https://rentry.co/iuprxhm9 (working document, in progress)
1 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/crosswords/wordle-review-1170.html#permid=135874976 PreFab Sprouts
2 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/crosswords/wordle-review-1171.html#permid=135888579 PreFab Sprouts
3 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/02/crosswords/wordle-review-1172.html#permid=135908929 PreFab Sprouts
4 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/crosswords/wordle-review-1173.html#permid=135937869 The Beat Twist & Crawl
5 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/04/crosswords/wordle-review-1174.html#permid=135968992 The Beat Mirror in the Bathroom
6 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/crosswords/wordle-review-1175.html#permid=135992759 The Beat - Stand Down Margaret
7 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/41mq9s Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
8 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/07/crosswords/wordle-review-1177.html#permid=136031593 Talking Heads - Swamp
9 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/41o3hc Talking Heads - Swamp
10 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/crosswords/wordle-review-1179.html#permid=136077232 Talking Heads - Swamp
11 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/41pkai? Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
12 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/11/crosswords/wordle-review-1181.html#permid=136123557 Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
13 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/crosswords/wordle-review-1182.html#permid=136168266 Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Lifeboat Party
14 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/41sdae Hazel O'Connor - Will You
15 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/crosswords/wordle-review-1184.html#permid=136208031 Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach
16 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/41t6re Mickey Jupp - Make it Fly
17 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/41uaf1 Paul Young - Iron Out the Rough Spots
18 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/41utlm Madness with Ian Dury ~ Drip Fed Fred
19 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/41vvbo Ian Dury and the BLOCK HEADS - Reasons to be Cheerful
20 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/crosswords/wordle-review-1189.html#permid=136326397 Huey Lewis and the News - The Power of Love
21 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/421bnj Blue Γ–yster Cult - Godzilla
22 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/421oko Eurhythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
23 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/422bou Squeeze - Cool for Cats
24 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4230f4 Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days
25 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/423i5n Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives me Crazy
26 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/42479m Fine Young Cannibals - Good Thing
27 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/42516o Tears For Fears - Mad World
28 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/425jp3 David Bowie - Let's Dance
29 September 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/425qc0 The Flying Pickets - When you are Young and in Love
30 September 2024 Fairport Convention - London River

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Pub: 10 Sep 2023 03:36 UTC

Edit: 27 Jun 2025 17:24 UTC

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