Crossword-Solution: PARTITAS 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Denen Liebhabern dieses Instrumenten zu gar besondern Vergnügen aufgesetzet." That is-- Seven Partitas based on the Re, Mi, Fa, or minor third of each mode, together with a Sonata in B flat, for the especial gratification of lovers of this instrument.

The list of Bach's compositions includes three sonatas and three partitas (generally classed as six sonatas) for violin alone; six sonatas for violin and piano, a large quantity of chamber music of one sort and another, a few orchestral suites, and about ten large volumes of music for the clavier and for the organ.

These compositions--known in France as Ordres, in Germany as Suites and Partitas and in England as Lessons--though all the movements were in the _same key_, yet showed considerable variety by reason of the contrast in the dance rhythms.

What she really dreamed of was to someday have a vacation home on the Caribbean side of the Yucatan, where she could wake to the sounds of the surf and play Bach partitas to the seabirds in the coconut palms.

Bach's pianoforte works in smaller form are the "Two-Part Inventions" already mentioned; the "Three-Part Inventions," which go a step farther in contrapuntal treatment, and the "Partitas," the six "French Suites" and the six "English Suites." These partitas and suites are the most graceful and charming efflorescence of the contrapuntal school, and much could be accomplished toward making Bach a popular composer if they figured more frequently on recital programs.