Baroque Suite: Compare And Contrast The Last And Final Dance Sarabande

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Baroque Suite
A baroque suite was a collection of dances started from prelude. When making musical pieces for baroque suites, the composer used the same key, but by contrasting the tempo and time signatures they were organized. Baroque suite a group of dances with dance music that has there are four different dances. The first dance was Allemande. The Allemande is a popular dance. Allemande was French for German. Allemande was the 1st dance in the suite. The music started off a moderate tempo that turns into faster tempo. The second dance was Courante. Courante means running in Italian. The music is a fast tempo song. The third song was sarabande. Sarabande was a meaningful and slow tempo dance. The last and final dance was Gigue. Gigue is

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