Suite A collection of several movements, often dance movements. Overture A piece for beginning an opera, ballet, or concert. A piece of music within a larger piece. Finale A final movement. Minuet Probably the most popular dance of all time.
Many symphonies have a Minuet movement.
Rondo A piece in which there is a melody that keeps coming back. In between appearances of the melody, there will be other music, and the melody often returns in sneaky, surprising, or entertaining ways. Later, in a sort of homecoming, the ideas return in their original form. Theme and The musicians play some music, and then that music is transformed in Variations different ways, as though the same music kept coming back in different costumes. All rights reserved.