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An  English  Suite
for  Keyboard or Organ
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An English Suite is a curious but charming Rococo anomaly in four movements, for keyboard, whether piano, harpsichord, or, with its optional pedal part, organ.

        The first movement, Promenade, presents a stately and rhythmically intricate melody, eight measures in length, above a simple bass line. It is repeated twice, and with each repetition a new voice is introduced, until the texture is filled in with four accumulative but contrapuntally independent lines.

        A spritely Dance follows, which is menuet-like in nature, but rhythmically unstable. The dance is succeeded by a sonorous, harmonically venturesome and modulatory Interlude, at the end of which the Promenade returns, with an affirmative cadence, to conclude the work.

        Interpretation of An English Suite could readily include use of manual changes, contrasting timbres and registrations, and an expressive range of touches and elastic rubato to enhance the varied nature of each movement.