Keyboard suite in D minor (HWV 437)

The Keyboard suite in D minor (HWV 437) was composed by George Frideric Handel, for solo keyboard (harpsichord), between 1703 and 1706. It is also referred to as Suite de pièces Vol. 2 No. 4. It was first published in 1733.^[1][2]

Movements

The work consists of five movements:

Movement	Type	Grove[1] reference	Händel-Gesellschaft reference	Hallische Händel-Ausgabe reference	Notes
1	Prelude	107	xlviii, 149		The prelude did not appear in the first edition published by John Walsh[3] and was taken from Handel's keyboard suite HWV 428. HWV 561 is another version of the prelude.[1]
2	Allemande	108	ii, 81	iv/5, 29
3	Courante	109	ii, 82	iv/5, 30
4	Sarabande	110	ii, 82	iv/5, 31	The initial sarabande is followed by two variations thereof.
5	Gigue	111	ii, 83	iv/5, 33

In popular culture

The Sarabande has been subject to several instrumentations for the inclusion in film scores or TV shows or it was used as thematic material for original works. In most of the examples below, only the original Sarabande without Handel's variations was used.

It was used in an orchestral arrangement for the Stanley Kubrick period drama film Barry Lyndon (1975).^[4]

The Sarabande was quoted by Joe Hisaishi in the song "Nausicaä · Requiem" from his score for Hayao Miyazaki's 1984 animated film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

Dutch singer Petra Berger used the Sarabande as the musical setting for her song about Mary, Queen of Scots, "Still a Queen (In My End Is My Beginning)", from her album Eternal Woman (2001).^{[citation needed]}

In 2002, the Sarabande was used in the so-called "Odyssey" commercial for Levi's. ^[5] It was then recycled in the UK TV advert for the tropical drink, Lilt.

Danish DJ Christian Steen Jensen (alias Camena) used the Sarabande in his 2006 release of the same name.^[6]

Dave Gorman's Modern Life is Goodish uses the Sarabande and both of its variations to accompany his 'found poem' section in every episode, performed by the Billroth String Quartet/Ensemble.^[7]

The Sarabande was featured in the episode "Warp and Weft" (2017; S02E03) of the second season of the ITV period drama TV series Victoria.^[8]

An orchestral version of the Sarabande was used on the first episode of The ABC Murders (2018), a television mini-series based on the Agatha Christie novel The A.B.C. Murders (1936), starring John Malkovich as Poirot. ^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Keyboard works by George Frideric Handel