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- noun Plural form of
sonata .
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Examples
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Last season he went through the complete piano sonatas, on Thursday and Friday of last week he offered the complete works for cello and piano with cellist Marc Coppey, next season a cycle of violin sonatas is promised, and finally the piano trios the season after that.
Some musical lessons in balance and sensitivity Robert Battey 2010
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It is misleading to refer to the sonatas as a "body of music," as they are in fact 32 unique structures, which between them represent an astonishing variety of language and cover more spiritual ground than seems reasonable given that they spring from one man's imagination.
Slate Articles Jonathan Biss 2011
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A pair of neglected violin sonatas from the Portuguese composer shine in a new recording.
News 2011
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A pair of neglected violin sonatas from the Portuguese composer shine in a new recording.
News 2011
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A pair of neglected violin sonatas from the Portuguese composer shine in a new recording.
News 2011
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Giustini was a priest who lived from 1685 to 1743, and his sonatas are a transition between
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Basically, I'm not convinced by many of my colleagues 'choice of how they group these sonatas, which is mostly dictated by the box office, let's be frank.
Freep.com - RSS 2009
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The unfortunate student of music, shackled by instruction that aims mainly at teaching him how to play an instrument and ignores the higher side of art, plods through the classical repertory until he gets an idea that music consists of nothing but symphonies and sonatas, which is as absurd as it would be to say that poetry consists of nothing but sonnets, whereas a couple of dozen good sonnets are enough for the literature of any language.
The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players Gustav Kobb�� 1887
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From an account of the first matinee in the Athenaeum we learn that Chopin played nocturnes, etudes, mazurkas, two waltzes, and the Berceuse, but none of his more developed works, such as sonatas, concertos, scherzos, and ballades.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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As music scholar Charles Rosen has observed, Beethoven intended these sonatas as "exemplars of great spiritual experience," but it is dangerousto assume that we understand what that experience might be.
Pianist Till Fellner ends Beethoven sonata cycle with restrained refinement Post 2010
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