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''Suite française'' (French Suite), FP 80, is an orchestral suite for wind instruments,
percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...
and
harpsichord A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard, keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which in turn raises a mechanism with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic that plucks one ...
(or harp ''ad libitum'') by
Francis Poulenc Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (; 7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include mélodie, songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among th ...
. It was composed in a neoclassical style in 1935 for Édouard Bourdet's ''la Reine Margot'', and it was inspired by Claude Gervaise's dance collection ''Le livre de danceries''.


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Bransle A branle ( , ), also bransle, brangle, brawl(e), brall(e), braul(e), brando (in Italy), bran (in Spain), or brantle (in Scotland), is a type of France, French dance popular from the early 16th century to the present, danced by couples in either ...
de Bourgogne #
Pavane The ''pavane'' ( ; , ''padovana''; ) is a slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century (Renaissance). The pavane, the earliest-known music for which was published in Venice by Ottaviano Petrucci, in Joan Ambrosio Dalza's ...
# Petite marche militaire # Complainte # Bransle de Champagne # Sicilienne # Carillon * A typical performance lasts 14 minutes.


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* * * {{italic title Suites by Francis Poulenc 1935 compositions Orchestral suites Chamber music by Francis Poulenc Compositions for orchestra without strings Incidental music Neoclassicism (music) Arrangements of classical compositions