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Definition of Sonata form
1. Noun. A musical form having 3 sections -- exposition and development and recapitulation; characteristic of 1st movement of a sonata or symphony.
Definition of Sonata form
1. Noun. (music) A form of classical music consisting of a single movement divided into three main sections, namely - the exposition (in the tonic and then another key), development (modulating in different keys) and recapitulation (returning to the tonic), sometimes followed by a coda ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sonata Form
Literary usage of Sonata form
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"Haydn first established the classical sonata form, although Ph. Em. Bach, ...
In the full sonata form the second movement would be in slow tempo. ..."
2. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"In the full sonata form the second movement would be in slow tempo. ... sonata form.
In the style of a sonata. sonata form is also synonymous with ..."
3. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"Haydn first established the classical sonata form, although Ph. Em. Bach, ...
In the full sonata form the second movement would be in slow tempo. ..."
4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"Among the earliest specimens of this rudimentary sonata- form may be counted the
Sonatas of Giov. Battista Fontana (published about 1630), a Sinfonía by ..."
5. The Appreciation of Music by Thomas Whitney Surette, Daniel Gregory Mason (1907)
"the way in which we shall use it here, letting "sonata-form" mean this peculiar
type of musical structure, to be described in detail presently, ..."
6. The Appreciation of Music by Thomas Whitney Surette, Daniel Gregory Mason (1907)
"the way in which we shall use it here, letting "sonata-form" mean this peculiar
type of musical structure, to be described in detail presently, ..."
7. The Appreciation of Music by Daniel Gregory Mason, Thomas Whitney Surette (1907)
"the way in which we shall use it here, letting "sonata-form" mean this peculiar
type of musical structure, to be described in detail presently, ..."
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