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ballet suite

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noun

  1. music written for a ballet but suitable or arranged for performance in an orchestral concert.


Etymology

Origin of ballet suite

Probably earlier than 1960–65

Example Sentences

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Then came a stranger, Jacques Ibert, with three pieces from his ballet suite, Les Rencontres, given its U. S. premiere a fortnight ago by the Boston Symphony.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seekers after culture swarmed Peuser's gallery to see an impressive exhibit of Matisse drawings, attended symphony concerts, heard visiting U.S. composer Aaron Copland conduct his Appalachian Spring ballet suite.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has written a piano concerto and a ballet suite, Sebastian, is currently working on a violin concerto.

From Time Magazine Archive

The late Pierre Monteux was 88 when he recorded this Mother Goose ballet suite with the London Symphony Orchestra, creating crystalline tableaux of sleeping princesses and lost children.

From Time Magazine Archive

The music had commenced—a tripping languorous ballet suite from a famous opera.

From A Man's Hearth by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

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