partita
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partitas,
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partite
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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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A partita is a musical work made of different pieces and variations, and the book charts Livia’s attempt to form something whole, if inconsistent, from the clashing elements of her personal history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
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
He approached Colville, and said politely— "La signora è partita."
From Indian Summer by William Dean Howells
His instrumental suites, partitas and concertos, made of dance forms, can include some of the most profound music of this most profound of composers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2022
Her sound, too, balances mastery with mystery; her recent recordings of those partitas and sonatas for solo violin trace Bach’s lines with a touch that feels like exquisite, if singular, penmanship.
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2021
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
“We finished before the Bach partitas did,” he noted.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019
In 2012 he won a MacArthur “genius” grant; the following year he made a record of Bach partitas and sonatas.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2016
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 William Rounseville Alger
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 John Ruskin
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 M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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 Maxwell T. Masters
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