sonata form
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsonataandform
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sonata
noun[C]
uk/səˈnɑː.tə/us/səˈnɑː.t̬ə/
a piece of music in three or four parts, either for a piano or for another instrument, such as a violin, sometimes also with ...
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form
noun
uk/fɔːm/us/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofsonataandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Even thesonataformis included in the primary school final year's textbook, together with various trends of the 20th century history of music.
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Or, more alarmingly, that it is insonataform?
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What do pieces like these have to do withsonataform?
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It would nevertheless also be plausible to place both pieces in thesonataformcategory.
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Several commentators have called the aria asonataformwithout development.
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The use ofsonataformis thus no mere crutch or affectation: it is central to the organization of the unfolding temporal drama.
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For example, the fragment could conform to ternary construction (with a 'sonataform' key scheme), the surviving section representing the first part or exposition.
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The assumed intent here was to avoid having both of the concerto's outer movements insonataform.
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Bothsonataformand the leitmotif, it turns out, became more philosophical, schematic and universalizing the greater the distance from their origins.
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It could be chance, a good teacher, beer, asonataformor a formula.
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There is none of the activity of the beginning, and none of the neat expository divisions and references tosonataform.
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She argues that such lack of hierarchy is a way of resisting a masculinist narrative embodied most prestigiously insonataform(a formal pattern of classical instrumental music).
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It is usually assumed that this movement is insonataform, and that one finds the group of the first themes in the first ten measures.
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Many of us were taught, for example, that thesonataformhas two main themes, only to discover that quite often it has only one, or even three.
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Fluid passages that mix genres also do not followsonataformprocedures.
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Permeability in late eighteenth-century opera has been overlooked, perhaps, due to the strength of thesonataformparadigm, which maintains that tonal and melodic clarity precede development and instability.
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Modernist experiments moved away from the symphony and/orsonataform, and in the case of noise music, attempted to leave form behind (somewhat optimistically and didactically).
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His conclusion that the form of this song conveys the dramatized internal experience far more successfully than doessonataformshould be more far-reaching than it probably will be.
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