I suppose many tunes will have started out as tunes for specific dances such as reels, hornpipes, jigs and polkas, etc., but time and variations over time have affected that relationship. Consider the hornpipe and the difference, for example, between The Gloucester Hornpipe as played by the Old Swan Band, and the Newcastle-style hornpipes pioneered by James Hill. Quite different in feel yet still "hornpipes". As for Wolfgang Amadeus, I don't think he'd have cared a fig what anyone did with K numbers - they're for our convenience, not his.
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