Bilingual Music: Baroque dance suites
(WorldNews Music)

As the name implies, a suite is a collection of short, stylistically different dances. They were a very popular form of composition during the Baroque period. The French ordre and suite and the Italian partite are just different words meaning the same thing. In previous Bilingual Music articles we have seen how certain French Baroque composers would append unique - and often inscrutable - titles to individual dances within the suite. Yet, the music...