The Suite has three movements:

1. Grazioso e rubato - con brio
2. Bright
3. Allegro spiritoso

The first movement is marked grazioso and rubato and is a flowing cascading music. This contrasts with a middle section that is more angular, with dotted rhythms, at one point devolving into a walking bass descending into the depths.

The second movement begins brightly with a three note-motive that accelerates until it bursts into a trill. Birdlike trills and woodpecker-like repeated notes build energy until the lively "splashing music" begins. I've always thought of the harpsichord sound as splashy, with its plucked bright tone that dies away relatively fast. The splashing music is an energetic section of hand-sized note clusters and other chords that jump around the keyboard.

The third movement is a scherzando allegro moving in uneven rhythms. At the beginning, 5/8 alternates with 3/8. Later the each of those time signatures sticks for a while with 3/8 measures driving to the cadences. The middle section begins in 5/8 with left hand answering right hand. Some long notes interrupt the momentum but a rising passage similar to music in the first movement brings the energy back, and the movement ends with the 5/8 - 3/8 combined with the long note interruptions.

This music is dedicated to Bill and Nancy Burdine of Lexington, Massachusetts.

Duration approx 12' --less if your tempos are fast