partita
Americannoun
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an instrumental suite common chiefly in the 18th century.
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a set of variations.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of partita
1875–80; < Italian, feminine of partito divided. See party
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On hearing the first notes of Chalifour playing the solo Bach partita that night, the goose bumps came, as Gehry has recalled, then the tears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
The next scene begins with the sound of a mournful Bach partita for the solo violin.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2018
Then came the Sarabande from Bach’s second solo partita, played ardently by Henry Wang — and choreographed by Stuart Loungway into a pas de deux for the dancers Morgann Rose and Darion Flores.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2017
“For Violin Alone” is also based on Bach’s forms, this time a complete partita.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2015
He approached Colville, and said politely— "La signora è partita."
From Indian Summer by Howells, William Dean
The pandemic was the occasion, and Bach’s partitas a source of inspiration, when Gary Anthes began to photograph still lifes in an abandoned structure on his property.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022
They were husband-and-wife artists in the Odessa Philharmonic — he plays the cello, she the violin — sharing a love for Bach partitas and the music from “Star Wars.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2022
Hewitt, who the Guardian described as “one of the great Bach interpreters of our day” had used the piano on all her European recordings since 2003, including a celebrated recent performance of Bach’s six partitas.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2020
As a playlist of Bach partitas played in the background, Giulianotti kept up a running commentary, which was transmitted via a sound system.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019
At 18 and 19, Menuhin was the first to record Bach’s complete solo violin sonatas and partitas, not then well known.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2016
The spores in many species amongst the Melanconiei are remarkably fine; those of Stegonosporium have the endochrome partite and cellular.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
It thus includes such cases as the division of an ordinarily entire leaf into a lobed or partite one, as well as those characterised by the separation of organs usually joined together.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Your aspects, dignities, ascendancies, Your partite quartiles, and your plastic trines, And all your heavenly houses and effects, Shall meet no more devout expounders here.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
The leaves are said to be very deeply pinnately partite; but drawn—as neither pinnate nor partite!
From Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John
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