partita

Instrumental dance collection

A partita is a suite of instrumental pieces, typically for solo keyboard or violin.

The term is most associated with Baroque music, particularly Bach's keyboard partitas and his partitas for solo violin.

Each partita consists of several dance movements—allemandes, courantes, sarabandes, gigues—organized into a unified whole.

baroque

suite

Connected hotel rooms

counterpoint · fugue · allemande · sarabande · gigue · minuet · gavotte · continuo · ornamentation · polyphony

form

movements

Changes in position

variation · theme · binary · ternary · da capo · coda · exposition · development · recapitulation · modulation

variety

assortment

Mixed collection of things

medley · mixture · potpourri · melange · miscellany · combination · grouping · set · anthology · compendium

Bach

Goldberg

chorale · Leipzig · manuscript · autograph · transcription

Opposites
musical scale and forces

partitasymphony

Extended composition for orchestra

grand opera · electronic music · musique concrète · tone poem · opera

compositional structure

partitasonata

Multi-movement instrumental composition

symphony · fantasia · rhapsody · impromptu · tone poem

Phrases
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partial, partition, partially, participant, participate, particle, participation, partitioning, partitioned

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