Branle
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A branle, also bransle, brangle, brawl, brall, braul, brando, bran, or brantle, is a type of French dance popular from the early 16th century to the present, danced by couples in either a line or a ci
Branle d'Ossau by Alfred Dartiguenave, 1855–1856
Branle à la cour de Henri III, French school, 1580s
Suite (music)
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A suite, in Western classical music, is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/concert band pieces. It originated in the late 14th century as a pairing of dance tunes; and grew in scope so that
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…variety of branles, attributed to different regions, were danced in sequence, so that the suite of branle music gives one of the earliest examples of the classical suite of dances. Such suites generally ended with a gavotte, which seems then to have been regarded as a species of branle. Some aristocratic branles included pantomime…
Gavotte from J.S. Bach's French Suite No. 5
Allemande.
Gavotte.