Baroque dance suite

1. What is a Baroque dance suite?
2. What are the characteristics of a Baroque dance suite?
3. What other dances were in the Baroque dance suite?
4. What period is suite?

What is a Baroque dance suite?

A characteristic baroque form was the dance suite. Suites are ordered sets of instrumental or orchestral pieces usually performed in a concert setting. (Some dance suites by Bach are called partitas, although this term is also used for other collections of musical pieces).

What are the characteristics of a Baroque dance suite?

A Baroque Suite is a collection of baroque dances often preceded by a prelude. All pieces share the same key and are organized with contrasting tempo and time signatures. Other names for the suite are partita and sonata.

What other dances were in the Baroque dance suite?

Suites were composed of four main movements: allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue. Each of the four main movements is based on a dance form from another country.

What period is suite?

Suite, in music, a group of self-contained instrumental movements of varying character, usually in the same key. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the period of its greatest importance, the suite consisted principally of dance movements.