Can anyone be a big help and by any chance tell me the conventional form of a suite of music(if there is one)? I really need to know for my advanced higher dissertation which is driving my mad at the moment!!!!

Any help would be greatly recieved!

Jen

hi!

i'm pretty certain that a suite is a collection of song's that have significance to each other. and therfore don't really follow any guidelines as such. but don't stick to this cos i might be wrong

jaime

One important part of music making in the Baroque period (as before and since) was music for dancing, and the standard pieces used both for actual dancing and also for much abstract 'listening' music became consolidated in what is now recognised as the Baroque suite

This is based on a group of four core dances, the Allemande, the Courante, the Saraband and the Gigue. Other dances can be added to the list, usually between the sarabande and the gigue, but a suite is quite complete with just those four core elements. All the dance movements are in binary form, that's to say, in two sections, both of which repeat.(I think that's right) The first section is usually slightly shorter than the second, and introduces melodic ideas which will be somewhat developed in the second.

Hope this is helpful.