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Definition of Sonata
Sonata
An extended composition for one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements; as, Beethoven's sonatas for the piano, for the violin and piano, etc.


Related Definitions:
An, And, As, Composition, Consisting, Extended, For, Four, Of, One, Or, Piano, The, Three, Two, Violin


Sonata Quotations
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Samuel Beckett

Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.
Elliott Carter

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
Alfred Whitney Griswold

My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.
Alexander Scriabin

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Sonata Translations
sonata in Dutch is sonate
sonata in Finnish is sonaatti
sonata in German is Sonate
sonata in Italian is sonata
sonata in Spanish is sonata






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