During the 17th century the court ballet of France added a large number of regional and other dances to the already established Allemande (= alaman) and Courante (= Coranto). Some of these were these were the Minuet...The organization of a more or less standard Suite form... consists of four contrasted national dances: the Allemande from Germany... the Corrente from Italy... or the Courante from France... the Sarabande from Spain... and the Gigue, or jig, from England... To this basic four-movement plan, later composers added further dances, known collectively in France as Galanteries... which could either follow or precede the gigue. Bach generally chose the latter alternative...
In some suites, two or more dances of the same type appear side by side - particularly courantes and the various galanteries...Pairs of galanteries together form tripartite structures (A B A) like the more familiar minuet and trio. Thus Bourrees I and II in Bach's English Suite No. 1 in A are played consecutively with all the marked repeats, and are then followed by a return to Bourree I without its repeats
Topic: Protocol for Bach's Menuet from Partita No. 1?