sonata form

collocation in English

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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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Examples of sonata form

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Even the sonataform is included in the primary school final year's textbook, together with various trends of the 20th century history of music.
Or, more alarmingly, that it is in sonataform?
What do pieces like these have to do with sonataform?
It would nevertheless also be plausible to place both pieces in the sonataform category.
Several commentators have called the aria a sonataform without development.
The use of sonataform is thus no mere crutch or affectation: it is central to the organization of the unfolding temporal drama.
For example, the fragment could conform to ternary construction (with a 'sonataform' key scheme), the surviving section representing the first part or exposition.
The assumed intent here was to avoid having both of the concerto's outer movements in sonataform.
Both sonataform and the leitmotif, it turns out, became more philosophical, schematic and universalizing the greater the distance from their origins.
It could be chance, a good teacher, beer, a sonataform or a formula.
There is none of the activity of the beginning, and none of the neat expository divisions and references to sonataform.
She argues that such lack of hierarchy is a way of resisting a masculinist narrative embodied most prestigiously in sonataform (a formal pattern of classical instrumental music).
It is usually assumed that this movement is in sonataform, and that one finds the group of the first themes in the first ten measures.
Many of us were taught, for example, that the sonataform has two main themes, only to discover that quite often it has only one, or even three.
Fluid passages that mix genres also do not follow sonataform procedures.
Permeability in late eighteenth-century opera has been overlooked, perhaps, due to the strength of the sonataform paradigm, which maintains that tonal and melodic clarity precede development and instability.
Modernist experiments moved away from the symphony and/or sonataform, and in the case of noise music, attempted to leave form behind (somewhat optimistically and didactically).
His conclusion that the form of this song conveys the dramatized internal experience far more successfully than does sonataform should be more far-reaching than it probably will be.
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