The
Suite
Suite may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
*Suite (music), a set of musical pieces considered as one composition
** Suite (Bach), a list of suites composed by J. S. Bach
** Suite (Cassadó), a mid-1920s composition by Gaspar Cassadó
** ''Suite' ...
in
C minor,
BWV 997, by
Johann Sebastian Bach, exists in two versions:
* BWV 997.1 – 1st version, composed before its earliest extant manuscript copy was written 1738–1741, for
Lautenwerk (lute-harpsichord)
* BWV 997.2 – 2nd version, for lute: the arrangement is possibly not by Bach.
Movements
It has five
movements:
#Preludio
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Fuga
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Sarabande
The sarabande (from es, zarabanda) is a dance in triple metre, or the music written for such a dance.
History
The Sarabande evolved from a Spanish dance with Arab influences, danced by a lively double line of couples with castanets. A dance cal ...
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Gigue
#Double (
variation
Variation or Variations may refer to:
Science and mathematics
* Variation (astronomy), any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite, particularly of the moon
* Genetic variation, the difference in DNA among individual ...
on the gigue) – If the double is counted as a separate movement.
References
External links
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Suites by Johann Sebastian Bach
1737 compositions
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