Suite Orquestal No. 1 y No. 2 en C mayor BWV 1066

Abstract

A musical piece suite is composed of several short movements whose origins are different types of baroque dances. The suite is considered one of the first manifestations of modern orchestral type. In order to maintain internal unity, all the passages were composed of a suite in the same key, or its relative minor. Sometimes they had a song in different dances. So this kind is considered a precursor of the sonata form that originates in the seventeenth century. The dances were simple binary form, ie, two roughly equal sections. A suite consisted of about ten moves. Usually began with a prelude. The first dance could be an allemande, fast-paced, then a courante and Sarabande, a bourree, moderate time, and so on, ending with a lively dance, like Giga (dance). The suite had its apogee in Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach in the eighteenth century. At the end of the Baroque suite was a sophisticated form of music that mixed different shades, contrasting thematic material presented at the beginning of the piece and rechallenged at its end. Announces ultimately the source of the sonata, which will replace the suite as a genre instrumental in the second half of the eighteenth century. In summary, the suite is the union in a single work of several different character dances and rhythm, with getting to the dramatic sense of "contrast", typical of the Baroque.