The Baroque Suite

A pack on how a Baroque dance suite is built — the core four movements, the optional galanteries, openings and variation movements, and the six conventions that hold a suite together, with a model suite to write yourself.

What's inside

• The core four movements of a Baroque suite, and how they contrast by tempo and metre
• The galanteries — the optional dances inserted between the core movements
• Openings and the variation movements, including notes inégales and French convention
• Six conventions that make a suite a suite — one key throughout, binary form, one rhythmic idea per movement and more
• A model suite you could write this week, movement by movement, plus three mistakes to avoid and suggested listening