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Partita

Partita was originally the name for a single instrumental piece of music (16th and 17th centuries), but Johann Kuhnau[?] and later German composers (notably Bach) used it for collections of musical pieces, as a synonym for suite.

Partita is also another name for the game Tarocchini.

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