The truth is that he has used the score as a dance suite for related but separate episodes.
Collections of dances were often collected together as dance suites.
"Valentine" is a new dance suite, but its flavors are not entirely sweet.
A jubilant dance suite and choral numbers conclude the act.
This is reflected in the structure which imitates a Baroque dance suite.
It isn't a dance suite in the sense that the Bach and Muffat works are.
"Mechanical Organ" (1980) is a bright and kinetic dance suite.
The dance suite has a complete form.
The dance suites from books I-V are particularly notable for their length and variety of included pieces.
The subject of his thesis was the history and stylistic development of dance suites in seventeenth-century Germany.