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n. A composition for one or more solo instruments, one of which is usually a keyboard instrument, usually consisting of three or four independent movements varying in key, mood, and tempo.

n. A musical composition for one or a few instruments, one of which is frequently a piano, in three or four movements that vary in key and tempo

n. An extended composition for one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements

n. In music, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, any composition for instruments: opposed to cantata.

n. In recent music, an instrumental work, especially for the pianoforte, made up of three or four movements in contrasted rhythms but related keys, one or more of which are written in sonata form.

n. exposition, containing the first subject, followed by the second, properly in the key of the dominant or in the relative major (if the first be minor);

n. development or working out, consisting of a somewhat free treatment of the two subjects or parts of them, either singly or in conjunction;

n. restatement containing the two subjects in succession, both in the original key, with a conclusion. The succession of sections and the relations of keys are open to considerable variation, and episodes often occur. The sonata form is distinctive of at least one movement of a sonata or symphony, and usually of the first and last; it also appears in many overtures.

n. a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms

serious music    classical    classical music   

sonata form    double sonata   

piano sonata    symphonic music    symphony    sonatina   

sonatina    sonata form   

Fatah    Juniata    Mahabharata    Nata    Plata    Renata    Renate    Stigmata    Yamagata    Zapata   

concerto    quartet    duet    opera    quintet    aria    symphony    overture    finale    madrigal