Definition of Sonata

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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

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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