Sentence examples for the dance suite from inspiring English sources
The French version of the dance suite became the prototype for later chamber-music forms.
Parallel to the developments that led from the vocal chanson, in France, to the instrumental canzona, primarily in Italy, was the development of the dance suite.
Shortly thereafter, the minuet, borrowed from the dance suite, was inserted with increasing frequency as a fourth movement between the slow movement and the fast finale.
The thrilling results came with works like his Chamber Concerto for 13 Instruments (1969-70), perfonmed on Friday after the dance suite.
The rest of the concert offered composers very close to Wolpe -- Webern (his own breakthrough Passacaglia) and Bartok (the Dance Suite) -- and extremely distant: Scriabin.
The first program offers the slashing "Miraculous Mandarin" Suite and the limpid Third Piano Concerto, as well as Stravinsky's complete "Firebird" ballet; the second features the "Dance Suite," the more percussive Second Piano Concerto, and the beloved Concerto for Orchestra.
The five-movement partita pays homage to the Baroque dance suite: the first, third and fifth movements are a courante, an aria and a gigue.
The piece, a dance suite that traces the creation of order out of chaos, was written in 1737 and is full of touches unusual for its time.
She combined the roles of C ise and the Statue (they are usually taken by two singers), and instead of allowing Pygmalion to enjoy his creation brought to life, she devoted part of the work's central dance suite to having the spirits dress the newly animated statue in C ise's clothes.
The premiere here, "From Foreign Lands," is a suite of six different national dances — Russian, Italian, German, Spanish, Polish and Hungarian set to a romantically appealing 1884 score by the German composer Moritz Moszkowski, along the lines of the national dance suites that occur in "Swan Lake".
The program lists Bartok's Dance Suite, the Second Chopin Concerto and Schumann's Symphony #4.
