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Sonata   /sənˈɑtə/   Listen
Sonata

noun
1.
A musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms.



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"Sonata" Quotes from Famous Books



... experienced the artistic satisfaction of the connoisseur in collegiate architecture, and mentally limned the remainder of the plan. His sensations were like those of a skilled musician who has heard the first movement of a masterly sonata and is left to imagine the perfect whole. The sun, now mounting toward the zenith, was shortening the shadows of the tower on the slate roof that shone in the bright atmosphere like dull silver. Not a student was in sight, and the place seemed to share the drowsy ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins
 
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... discussed her ideas with any one. Later she took to more serious reading, and of recent years she has assailed many of the world's greatest problems. Particularly she tells of the influence of Tolstoi's "Kreutzer Sonata'' upon her. During two years she has read it four times and it has convinced her of the shams of character and that ...
— Pathology of Lying, Etc. • William and Mary Healy
 
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... home, and put the finishing touch to my sonata for the piano-forte; but it is not yet eleven o'clock, and, withal, a beautiful summer night. I will lay any wager, that, at my next-door neighbour's, (the Oberjagermeister,) the young ladies are sitting at the window, screaming down into the street, for the twentieth time, with harsh, sharp, ...
— Hyperion • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 
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... like to tell you! No, not Beethoven; a little, just a little music. Heavens!" cried Reginald, as she crashed into a fortissimo, "another sonata! Listen, I am not equal to sonatas. Nay, Miss Beecham, play me a ...
— Phoebe, Junior • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
 
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Words linked to "Sonata" :   classical, symphonic music, sonatina, serious music, sonata form, classical music, movement, symphony, piano sonata



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