{"id":292,"date":"2015-06-02T17:58:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T17:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/musicx15xmaster\/?post_type=chapter&p=292"},"modified":"2015-07-10T22:10:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T22:10:20","slug":"suite","status":"web-only","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/odessa-musicapp-medievaltomodern\/chapter\/suite\/","title":{"raw":"Suite","rendered":"Suite"},"content":{"raw":"The suite was a widely used genre in the Baroque era that grew out of Renaissance dance music. In the Renaissance and early Baroque, composers wrote collections of short dance pieces for actual dancing at court. But over time, the dances and their order became more standardized, and this became a handy framework for composers to create instrumental music for everything from solo instruments to full orchestra. Suites were especially favored by composers of keyboard music. By the late Baroque, the suite was used primarily as a concert piece and had little to do with the actual dances that it used as its organizing structure.\r\n\r\nAs you read this page, pay attention to the order of the pieces and the fact that each dance had its own tempo, meter, and character; however, you don't have to memorize the specifics of each dance\u2014in this class you won't have to identify individual movements of a suite. As always, remember that while Baroque composers generally followed the pattern of dances listed here when they composed suites, they did not hesitate, especially by the late Baroque, to depart from the normal order or even insert movements that had nothing to do with dances. The movement from the Handel suite you'll hear later is called \"Alla Hornpipe\" which essentially means \"here come the horns!\"\r\n

Dance Suite<\/span><\/h2>\r\nA characteristic Baroque form was the dance suite. Some Dance suites by Bach are called partitas, although this term is also used for other collections of pieces. The dance suite often consists of the following movements:\r\n