partitan.

1864 Times 18 May 6/4 Mr. Charles Hallé's solo was J. S. Bach's Partita in G.

1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 656/1 He [sc. Bach] also wrote three Partitas (in the Suite-form) for the lute. The name has very seldom been used since Bach... But in the modern rage for revivals it may possibly reappear.

1889 Times 19 June 15/5 Dr. Parry's clever ‘partita’ for violin and pianoforte was played by Signor Guerini..and Miss Mabel Colley.

1925 Chambers's Jrnl. 31 Oct. 755/1 In such a week Mr Samuel has played sixteen preludes and fugues, ten French suites, partitas and English suites.

1948 Times 30 July 7/3 Mr. Vaughan Williams's most recent work, a Partita for strings, was given its first concert performance at the Albert Hall last evening.

1967 I. Spink Hist. Approach Mus. Form iii. 67 Bach clearly distinguishes the forms in his six sonatas for violin alone by calling those in church style ‘sonatas’ and those in chamber style ‘partitas’.

2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 8 Apr. 58/2 A German violin teacher theorized that Bach wrote the partita as an epitaph for wife.