Suite bergamasque movement of "Suite bergamasque" is Clair de lune, in D major. Its name comes from Verlaine's poem "Clair de lune", which means "moonlight" in French. It is written in meter, marked "andante très expressif", and to be played mostly "pianissimo". It is not to be confused with the two settings of the poem made by Debussy for voice and piano accompaniment. The final movement is Passepied in F minor, "allegretto ma non troppo". A passepied is a type of dance which originated in Brittany. Debussy's "Passepied" is a happy, strangely medieval piece, which is surprisingly faster than its Baroque counterparts.
Suite (music) or entirely original movements ("Holberg Suite", "The Planets"). Estienne du Tertre published "suyttes de bransles" in 1557, giving the first general use of the term "suite" 'suyttes' in music, although the usual form of the time was as pairs of dances. The first recognizable suite is Peuerl's "Newe Padouan, Intrada, Dantz, and Galliarda" of 1611, in which the four dances of the title appear repeatedly in ten suites. The "Banchetto musicale" by Johann Schein (1617) contains 20 sequences of five different dances. The first four-movement suite credited to a named composer, "Sandley's Suite", was published in 1663. The "classical" suite