suite de danses

A suite, in Western classical music and jazz, is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/concert band pieces. It originated in the late 14th century as a pairing of dance tunes and grew in scope to comprise up to five dances, sometimes with a prelude, by the early 17th century.

Pairing of dances was common in the medieval period, but it wasn't until the 17th century that the keyboard virtuoso Johann Jakob Froberger codified the movements of the suite to include four specific dances: the Allemande, the Courante, the Sarabande, and the Gigue.

Béla Bartók composed the Dance Suite in 1923 in order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the union of the cities Buda and Pest, to form the Hungarian capital Budapest.

During the Baroque period (1600-1750), it was common to group a set of shorter dances together forming a SUITE. The dances were contrasted – some faster and some slower and the music reflected this by changing tempo accordingly.

four movements (Some dance suites by Bach are called partitas, although this term is also used for other collections of musical pieces). The dance suite typically consists of four movements (described below), plus an overture at the beginning.

In music, a suite (pronounce "sweet") is a collection of short musical pieces which can be played one after another. The pieces are usually dance movements. The French word “suite” means “a sequence” of things, i.e. one thing following another.

It was in the early 17th century that suites with four, five and later six dance movements became the norm, and the keyboard suites of Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-67), with their reliance on four staple dances – allemande, courante, sarabande and gigue – remained a basic pattern for well over a century.

Musically, a suite is a series of distinct instrumental movements or sections with some element of unity, usually intended to be performed as a single unit.

Dance Suite (Bartók), also known as Táncszvit and Tanz-Suite, a 1923 orchestral work by Béla Bartók. Dance Suite (Bernstein) for brass quintet (1989), the last composition completed by Leonard Bernstein. Tanz-Suite (Dance Suite), op. 29, a piano work by Hermann Reutter.

Suite designates a collection of pieces around a particular theme or purpose. Sonata is a specific musical structure involving a multipart composition in which the first movement (typically) is in sonata form. Partita is similar to a suite, but generally consists of dance-style music.

Characteristic of the four movements of both dances and suites and suites was the contrast in tempo and meter, some fast and others slow. Famous composers of suites are Johann Jakob Froberger, Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Frideric Handel, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Francois Couperin.

Musically, a suite is a series of distinct instrumental movements or sections with some element of unity, usually intended to be performed as a single unit.