Concerto vs suite

1. What makes a song a suite?
2. What's the difference between a suite and a symphony?
3. What does suite mean in music?
4. What is a symphonic suite?

What makes a song a suite?

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.

What's the difference between a suite and a symphony?

As nouns the difference between symphony and suite

is that symphony is an extended piece of music of sophisticated structure, usually for orchestra while suite is (l) (group of connected rooms).

What does suite mean in music?

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.

What is a symphonic suite?

Sometimes, a medley suite might be named after the genre of music it was based off; a symphonic suite is a medley abstracted from a symphony.