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	Facts about topic: (French Suites) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		French Suites are suite (A matching set of furniture) s composed in a style that for one or more reasons is considered French (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France).
		The name "French" was given to them later, without the master's concurrence, on account of the meagre form of their component sections, which, even in external dimensions, adhere as closely as possible to the type on which they are founded.
		The movements of the French suite BWV 831 are:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/french_suites.htm (845 words)

	Encyclopedia: French suites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		French Suites are suites composed in a style that for one or more reasons is considered French.
		These six suites for keyboard were composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1722: In music, a suite is an organized set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed at a single sitting.
		One additional suite in B minor, the Overture in the French Style (often simply called French Overture) is sometimes also considered a Partita (see French Suites).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/French-suites (1593 words)

	Jian Wang: Bach Cello Suites Nos. 1, 2, 6 insights
		There he is said to have “acquired a thorough grounding in the French taste, which at that time in those regions was something quite new." Over the course of his life, Bach wrote dozens of suites, including three famous collections for keyboard: the English Suites, the French Suites and the Partitas (Clavier-Übung, Part 1).
		The large number of Partitas and Suites which we have from our ancestors, and which are nothing other than collections of dances, prove that these were at that time the main object of study for young musicians, as much for those who dedicated themselves to composition, as for those who dedicated themselves simply to performance.
		The THIRD SUITE, in C major, is the most tightly integrated in the set: the descending scale at the beginning of Prelude (marked “presto" in one 18th-century manuscript) is referenced at the opening of both the Allemande and Courante, and the chords at the end of the Prelude return to begin the Sarabande.
	www.deutschegrammophon.com /special/insighttext.htms?ID=wang-bach&DETAIL=2 (1333 words)

	GMCD 7258/9 French Overture & French Suites by Bach
		Suites of instrumental dance pieces united by a common key were well established by the middle of the 17th century.
		In the German keyboard suite, these dances were the Allemande, serious and supposedly Germanic, the Courante, French and in a graceful, running manner, the Sarabande, dignified and Spanish in style, and a lively, skipping Gigue, perhaps based on an English dance.
		The use of B-minor for the third suite gives Bach an opportunity for writing in a style that is deeply felt and abstracted at one and the same time, a manner which he often associated with this key.
	www.guildmusic.com /catalog/gui7259z.htm (1580 words)

	GM 2075 - J.S. Bach: FRENCH SUITES
		Johann Sebastian Bach's well-known French Suites originated toward the end of his Cöthen period (1717-1723), and were revised many times over the ensuing decades.
		With the exception of the first suite, the D minor, BWV 812, which is a fair copy (and therefore must have been composed earlier), the hasty script and the numerous corrections reveal that these were the very first notations of these compositions.
		The musical quality of the suites reveals that Anna Magdelena was not a beginner at the keyboard at the time of her marriage (in December of 1721 at the age of twenty), but rather a quite competent player.
	www.gmrecordings.com /gm2075.htm (344 words)

	Bach Choir of Bethlehem
		The dances are French in title and origin, which distinguishes them from the dance movements in the so-called “English” Suites or the partitas.
		A few individual movements appear to be somewhat galant in style; this is a style we associate more with the music of the sons of Bach, and is surprisingly forward-looking for works written in the 1720s.
		Typically, suites of the Baroque era alternate fast and slow movements (the terms “fast” and “slow” are relative terms).
	www.bach.org /bach101/instrumental/frenchsuites_intro.html (303 words)

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		Each of his 18 suites (6 French, 6 English and 6 Partitas) remained in one key throughout, providing a sense of unity to the suite as a whole.
		Bach’s French Suites are known by some as the smaller suites, since the movements themselves tend to be shorter.
		On the whole, the movements contained in the English Suites are a bit larger than those from the French Suites.
	www.ptloma.edu /music/MUH/baroque/bach_suites/bach_suites.htm (543 words)

	Suites and Partitas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There are three sets of six suites each: the French and English Suites, composed at Cüthen, and the six Partitas published separately between 1726 and 1730 and then collected in 1731 as Part of the Clavier Übung.
		The suites in both sets consist of the standard four dance movements (allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue) with additional short movements between the sarabande and gigue; each of the English suites opens with a prelude.
		Examples of Baroque concertos and suites, including Air on the G String and the Brandenburg Concertos.
	www.bachcentral.com /partinfo.html (326 words)

	Review: French Suites by Thurston Dart
		This is not a major default, but the suites are much shorter than in most recordings, and they leave this listener wanting to hear more.
		Beyond its interest as a historical recording, and the use of the clavichord, this is one of the finest recordings of Bach's French Suites available.
		Someone else could say that the French Suites should be experienced as a whole, and there would only be one track.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /NonVocal/Klavier-French-Dart.htm (1313 words)

	String keyboard music
		Among the earlier works are toccatas, capriccios, fantasias, fugues, variations, suites, sonatas, and miscellaneous shorter pieces for teaching.
		The most significant large-scale pieces completed by the time Bach left Cöthen (and in fact mostly written during the Cöthen period) are the toccatas in C minor and in F-sharp minor, the "English" and "French" Suites, and the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (dated 1722).
		The suites are a blending of German, Italian, and French approaches (e.g., Bach uses both the French and Italian types of courantes); in comparison with the so-called "French" Suites, the "English" Suites are generally more expansive, each beginning with a Prelude.
	www.bachcentral.com /clav.html (447 words)

	Amazon.com: Bach: The Six French Suites: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		French Suite No.2 In C Minor, BWV 813: II.
		From the opening Allemande of Suite #1, I was immediately disappointed, and my consternation and pixillation grew as I listened to the Sarabande of Suite #3 straight through to the Gigue of Suite #6.
		It's a "rush job," a disservice to Bach and the French Suites, and the kind of pianism that stereotypifies what people of a non-classical bent think Bach's music is: monotonous.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000041ZG?v=glance (1647 words)

	Hotel Directory - French Quarter Suites Hotel New Orleans Louisiana - Book A Hotel - Hotel Reservations - Discount ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The French Quarter Annex consists of four restored 19th century Victorian Homes, that offer the character and ambiance that one looks for when considering a visit to historic New Orleans.
		Standard amenties for all guest suites are microwave, refrigerator, coffee maker, safe, cable tv, iron and ironing board.
		Standard amenities for all guest suites are microwave, refrigerator, coffee maker, safe, cable tv, iron and ironing board.
	www.pinellaslife.com /Hotels/hotelinfo/59827.html (569 words)

	French Suites by Brookshire on hspi
		His interpretation of the fifth suite's sarabande is particularly free: his right hand adds more voices in the middle of the texture, and his way with the melody is "a loose interpretation of the original" (as they say in blue-jeans commercials).
		Although I thought there was much to commend, particularly in the Sixth Suite, which I think he plays very well, I found the line of the music constantly disrupted elsewhere by holding on notes slightly too long etc., often in a somewhat arbitrary fashion.
		I don't remember much of Gould's French Suites (it has been a while since I last heard them), but in general, Gould's Bach reveals more of Bach's drama and spontaneity than several of the musicians he admired.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /NonVocal/Klavier-French-Brookshire-Brad.htm (4460 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach The French Suites by Wayne Donnelly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Johann Sebastian Bach The French Suites by Wayne Donnelly
		his presentation of the French Suites is, to borrow from Madison Avenue, "not your father’s J. Bach." In David Cates' conception of this music, the dance movements that make up these six harpsichord suites are as redolent of the boudoir as of the drawing room.
		In his fine liner notes, Cates succinctly places these works in the context of Bach’s other great keyboard collections, and advances the proposition that the French Suites were a kind of wedding present for his musically gifted second wife, Anna Magdalena.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /Magazine/music/0204/bach.htm (704 words)

	Amazon.com: Bach: French Suites / Angela Hewitt: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Recorded early in Angela Hewitt's Bach cycle, the popular French Suites (along with the "Little Preludes" and other two more dynamic virtuoso pieces) take a step back from the more serious and complex fugal compositions of Bach and settle into the restrained elegance of the courtly and rustic dances of the era.
		Although Bach never titled these works as "French," the suites take much of their inspritation from the various "dance" forms of music in that period (French mainly) that form each suite: the processional German-inspired allemandes...
		Suites 5 and 6 are perhaps the most popular for their bright, major-key sounds.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000300T?v=glance (1858 words)

	BACH FRENCH SUITES - CATES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Of the sets of keyboard music Bach composed — the Goldberg Variations, the Well-tempered Clavier, the partitas, and the English Suites — the French Suites are probably his least complicated.
		Bach has further obscured things by failing to provide, as in the English Suites, a first-movement prelude for all but the fourth suite, and one finds documentary evidence for the sixth that links a fugitive piece to the suite as a prelude.
		So Cates has taken this path by beginning suites with preludes from Book I of the Well-tempered Clavier (from around the same period as the French Suites), one from Book II, and with two fugitive pieces, one for keyboard and one for lute.
	classicalcdreview.com /catesbach.html (447 words)

	New Orleans City Guides - French Quarter Suites Hotel in New Orleans - A Suite for the Price of a Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While there is no power, potable water or gas, we have heard indirectly from someone there that we suffered a bit of structural damage (roof tiles, siding, debris, etc.) but the buildings are still there.
		We have seen satellite pictures which show us that French Quarter Suites Hotel is not flooded and the buildings are still standing.
		We closed French Quarter Suites Hotel on Sunday morning, August 28, 2005 to evacuate and prepare for the arrival of Category 4 Hurricane Katrina.
	www.frenchquartersuites.com /katrina.htm (1097 words)

	JR.com: Glenn Gould Anniversary Edition - Bach: The French Suites in Music: Classical: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		French Suite no 1 in D minor, BWV 812
		French Suite no 2 in C minor, BWV 813
		French Suite no 4 in E flat major, BWV 815
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	French Language Software Windows Operating Systems, Adobe, Macromedia, MS-Office, Development Tools, Softwares by ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		French OS Apple MAC Operating Systems - Mac OS X in French is a super-modern operating system that combines the power and stability of UNIX with the simplicity and elegance of the Macintosh.
		Microsoft French Office XP Professional 2003 is the most significant version of French Office Professional 2003 ever released, Microsoft French Office Professional 2003 integrates productivity innovations throughout its programs to transform the traditional Office suite into a smarter overall work experience.
		The enhanced French Keyboard provides functionality of a desktop PC that can be plugged into the notebook for added functionality.
	www.french-software.com (1129 words)

	ArkivMusic \| Bach: French Suites, Etc / Masaaki Suzuki
		For example, Suzuki shortens the First Suite Gigue's dotted notes, imparting a sense of air and lightness to the music's French Overture pomp.
		And rather than treat the Fifth Suite Gigue like a virtuoso showpiece, he makes the triplets lilt in a way that allows you to tap your toes and sing along at the same time (try it).
		Though the A minor and E-flat major Suites are not official French Suites, they are as much in style and spirit, and they indisputedly fit in with their bretheren.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=78042 (353 words)

	The Iberville Suites New Orleans - French Quarter Hotel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Iberville Suites family of employees extends our sympathy and concern to all those affected by Hurricane Katrina.
		The Iberville Suites is currently closed due to Hurricane Katrina.
		We thank you for your continued support of The Iberville Suites and look forward to hosting you again in the very near future.
	www.ibervillesuites.com (70 words)

	Dutch Treats & French Suites on St. Maarten/St. Martin \| Frommers.com
		For a frolic on the French side, Caribbean Discounts (877/322-7364; www.caribbeandiscounts.com) has five- and seven-night fall specials at St. Martin's 5-star Princess Port De Plaisance Resort.
		Rates for a junior suite start at $399 for five nights and $499 for seven nights.
		Rates for a two-bedroom suite are a super low price of $599 for five nights and $699 for seven nights.
	www.frommers.com /articles/2260.html (678 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Bach: French Suites: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		French Suite No. 1 In D Minor, BWV812: Allemande
		French Suite No. 2 In C Minor, BWV813: Menuet I And II French Suite No. 2 In C Minor, BWV813: Gigue
		It's hard not to fall in love with this set, which is carried throughout by a lightness of touch and rhythmic lilt that captures all the grace of Bach's keyboard writing.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000300T (1038 words)

	Bach English and French Suites (Alan Curtis) [TB]: Classical Reviews- February 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		By Bach's time keyboard instruments had come to dominate solo music-making, and since there were no recitals of the kind we know today, his fundamental keyboard style was a private one without regard to deliberate ostentation.
		The exact date of composition of these suites is not known, but they were probably written around 1717, either during his final year at the Court of Weimar or in the earlier part of his six-year period as kapellmeister at Cöthen (1717-1723).
		While the French suites clearly take inspiration from Lully's approach, in following a Prelude with a sequence of dance movements, there is nothing particularly English about these impressive and substantial pieces, and the origin of this title is something of a mystery.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Feb02/BachCurt.htm (477 words)

	ArkivMusic \| Out Of Later Years Vol 5 - Bach: French Suites / S. Richter
		Sviatoslav Richter's May 22, 1991 performances of the Second, Fourth, and Sixth French Suites from Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow occurred just two months after the live Bonn/Rolandseck recordings issued in Philips' Richter Authorized Edition.
		Instead you get beauty of tone, pure, singing lines that are sensitively and clearly spun out, calmly centered rhythm without a trace of rigidity, plus every repeat under the sun.
		A private tape of the May 20th concert reveals similar modifications and improvements to those I mentioned in the course of the review.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=17447 (329 words)

	Basswood Country Resort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		These modern facilities are characterized by their charming country French decor and the photos that give way to each of their namesakes.
		Another of our suites offering a romantic Jacuzzi tub for two is named for Nellie, wife of A. Stephens.
		The Country French Suites overlook one of the lakes
	www.basswoodresort.com /lodging_french.html (199 words)

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