What is a suite and what is its importance in the history of music?

    In classical music, a suite is understood as a musical composition made up of different movements with a dance character, mostly with simple binary forms.

    Generally there used to be an approximate number of ten dances each suite, although there was no obligation as to the exact number they should have.

    The dances, of a popular nature, used to be interspersed in such a way that a slower one was followed by a faster one and so on.

    The suite had its heyday during the baroque and, although it later declined, due to the appearance of the sonata and the sonata form (derived directly from the suite), in the 20th century, many composers took it up again, in the sense of a composition of several successive movements (not necessarily dances).

    The suite was given different names in different places. Thus, in France it used to be called Ordre, in Germany Partita and in Italy Sonata.

    The greatest importance of the baroque suite is that, as we say, the sonata was derived from it, a musical composition of three or four movements (although there are also two and even one), in which the liveliest times followed one another with slow times, and that had its heyday in the classical and romantic period.

    The first movement of the sonata had a specific form, which we will talk about in the future, called the sonata form and, in addition to appearing in sonatas, it was also used for the first movement of symphonies, concertos and other forms such as triplets, quartets, quintets, etc.

    All of them, speaking in a classical sense, derived from the suite. Who would have thought, right?

And you, do you know another name that the suite received? Tell me in the comments!