What is "suite"

Suit \Suit\ (s[=u]t), n. [OE. suite, F. suite, OF. suite, sieute, fr. suivre to follow, OF. sivre; perhaps influenced by L. secta. See Sue to follow, and cf. Sect, Suite.]

1. The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit. [Obs.]

2. The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor.

   Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone.
   --Spenser.

3. The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.

   Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end.
   --Pope.

4. (Law) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery.

   I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino.
   --Shak.

   In England the several suits, or remedial instruments of justice, are distinguished into three kinds -- actions personal, real, and mixed.
   --Blackstone.

5. That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw[=e]t.

6. Things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw[=e]t.

7. A number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes; a three-piece business suit. ``Two rogues in buckram suits.''
   --Shak.

8. (Playing Cards) One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, clubs, or diamonds; also, the members of each such suit held by a player in certain games, such as bridge; as, hearts were her long suit.

   To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences.
   --Cowper.

9. Regular order; succession. [Obs.]

   Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.
   --Bacon.

10. Hence: (derived from def 7) Someone who dresses in a business suit, as contrasted with more informal attire; specifically, a person, such as business executive, or government official, who is apt to view a situation formalistically, bureaucratically, or according to formal procedural criteria; -- used derogatively for one who is inflexible, esp. when a more humanistic or imaginative approach would be appropriate. Out of suits, having no correspondence. [Obs.] --Shak. Suit and service (Feudal Law), the duty of feudatories to attend the courts of their lords or superiors in time of peace, and in war to follow them and do military service; -- called also suit service. --Blackstone. Suit broker, one who made a trade of obtaining the suits of petitioners at court. [Obs.] Suit court (O. Eng. Law), the court in which tenants owe attendance to their lord. Suit covenant (O. Eng. Law), a covenant to sue at a certain court. Suit custom (Law), a service which is owed from time immemorial. Suit service. (Feudal Law) See Suit and service, above. To bring suit. (Law)

    1. To bring secta, followers or witnesses, to prove the plaintiff's demand. [Obs.]

    2. In modern usage, to institute an action. To follow suit.

       1. (Card Playing) See under Follow, v. t.

       2. To mimic the action of another person; to perform an action similar to what has preceded; as, when she walked in, John left the room and his wife followed suit. long suit

          1. (Card Playing) the suit[8] of which a player has the largest number of cards in his hand; as, his long suit was clubs, but his partner insisted on making hearts trumps.. Hence: [fig.] that quality or capability which is a person's best asset; as, we could see from the mess in his room that neatness was not his long suit.

             strong suit same as long suit,

          2. . ``I think our strong suit is that we can score from both the perimeter and the post.''
             --Bill Disbrow (basketball coach) 1998. ``Rigid ideological consistency has never been a strong suit of the Whole Earth Catalogue.''
             --Bruce Sterling (The Hacker Crackdown, 1994)

1670s, "train of followers or attendants," from French suite, from Old French suite, sieute "act of following, attendance" (see suit (n.), which is an earlier borrowing of the same French word). The meanings "set of instrumental compositions" (1680s), "connected set of rooms" (1716), and "set of furniture" (1805) were imported from French usages or re-spelled on the French model from suit in its sense of "a number of things taken collectively and constituting a sequence; collection of things of like kind."

n. 1 A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. 2 A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals.

1. n. a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected

2. apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel) [syn: rooms]

3. the group following and attending to some important person [syn: cortege, retinue, entourage]

4. a matching set of furniture

A suite, in music, is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/ concert band pieces. It originated in the late 14th century as a pairing of dance tunes and grew in scope to comprise up to five dances, sometimes with a prelude, by the early 17th century. The separate movements were often thematically and tonally linked.

In the Baroque era the suite was an important musical form, also known as Suite de danses, Ordre (the term favored by François Couperin), Partita or Ouverture (after the theatrical " overture" which often included a series of dances) as with the orchestral suites of J.S. Bach.

During the 18th century the suite fell out of favour as a cyclical form, giving way to the symphony, sonata and concerto. It was revived in the later 19th century, but in a different form, often presenting extracts from a ballet ( Nutcracker Suite), the incidental music to a play ( L'Arlésienne Suites), opera, film ( Lieutenant Kije Suite) or video game ( Motoaki Takenouchi's 1994 suite to the Shining series), or entirely original movements ( Holberg Suite, The Planets).

A suite is the location of a business within a shopping mall or office building. The suite's number also serves as a sort of address within an address for purposes of mail delivery and pickup.

Some commercial mail receiving agencies may also use the 'suite' designator to indicate a company's private post-office box by listing it as a suite rather than a post-office box, though by order of the United States Postal Inspection Service, most of the major CMRA companies such as The UPS Store/ Mail Boxes Etc. have drawn this down as the result of mail fraud where unscrupulous businesses who count on their targets not researching their addresses market a post-office box 'suite' or virtual office as an actual office location with personnel.

In the USA, suite can be abbreviated "STE" in postal addresses.

A suite in a hotel or other public accommodation denotes a class of accommodations with more space than a typical hotel room. They can also be found onboard passenger ships.

In luxury or upscale accommodations, such as Ritz Carlton, InterContinental, Marriott, or Embassy Suites, key features may include multiple rooms. Many independent properties have one or more honeymoon suites, and sometimes the best accommodation at a high-end hotel is called the presidential suite or royal suite.

In upper-midscale accommodations, such as Comfort Suites, Hampton Inn & Suites, and Candlewood Suites, suites are usually one room with more space and furniture than a standard hotel room. In addition to one or more beds and bedroom fixtures, a suite includes a living area or sitting area with a couch that sometimes converts into a bed. Dining, office and kitchen facilities are also added in many suites. Some properties offer only suites. These suites are particularly marketed to business travelers who appreciate additional space and may use it to host small meetings or entertain clients.

Suite may refer to:

• Suite (music), a set of musical pieces considered as one composition
• Suite (art), a set of related illustrations considered to be part of one composition (ex/ Salvador Dalí's the Divine Comedy)
• Suite (hotel), a type of hotel room
• Suite (address), a kind of address or location in an office building, shopping mall, etc.
• Suite (geology), a collection of rock specimens from a given area or a succession of closely associated sedimentary strata
• Personal suite or retinue, retainers in service of a dignitary
• Software suite, a collection of software of related functionality (for example, Adobe Technical Communication Suite)
• Three-piece suite, a furniture set of sofas and chairs
• "Suite", a poem by Patti Smith from her book Babel

This Suite, like the Cello Concerto and the Piano Trio, came from one of Gaspar Cassadó's most prolific periods, in the mid-1920s.

The Suite consists of three dance movements:

• Preludio-Fantasia - a Zarabanda
• Sardana; and
• Intermezzo e Danza Finale - a Jota.

The first movement quotes Zoltán Kodály's Sonata for Solo Cello, and the famous flute solo from Maurice Ravel's ballet Daphnis et Chloé.

This Suite was popularized by the great cellist János Starker.

Category:Compositions by Gaspar Cassadó Category:Solo cello pieces