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tə noun Music.
a composition for one or two instruments, typically in three or four movements in contrasted forms and keys.
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| —n | |
| 1. | sonata form symphony See also concerto an instrumental composition, usually in three or more movements, for piano alone (piano sonata) or for any other instrument with or without piano accompaniment (violin sonata, cello sonata, etc) |
| 2. | a one-movement keyboard composition of the baroque period |
| [C17: from Italian, from sonare to sound, from Latin] | |
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Sonata
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Word Origin & History
sonata
1694, from It. sonata "piece of instrumental music," lit. "sounded" (i.e. "played on an instrument," as opposed to cantata "sung"), fem. pp. of sonare "to sound," from L. sonare "to sound" (see sound (n.1)). Meaning narrowed by mid-18c. toward application to large-scale works
in three or four movements.
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
sonata [(suh-nah-tuh)]A musical composition for one or two instruments, usually in three or four movements. The sonata of the classic era in music had a definite arrangement for its movements: the first and fourth had a fast tempo, the second had a slow tempo, and the third was in either playful style (a “scherzo”) or in dance form (a “minuet”).
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Sonata definition
operating systemThe code name for the major Mac OS release due in mid-1999.
(http://devworld.apple.com/mkt/informed/appledirections/mar97/roadmap.html).
(1997-10-15)
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Truth and falsity be damned, words stretched into circles dancing on the edge of madness, a sonata of vertigo.
The people liked the sonata, and they might have raised even more of a rum- pus over it if it hadn't had such an abrupt ending.
Counterpoint is used to elaborate and intensify the thematic argument of sonata form.
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