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• We will now hear the third sonata, in A-flat.From the entry a-flat
• The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully.From the entry render
• The way the musician interpreted a sonata was quite special.From the entry interpret
• We will now hear the third sonata, in E-flat.From the entry e-flat
• Margaret is in the drawing room, thumping the life from some unfortunate sonata.2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry pianiste
• The brilliant polychoric canzona has contrasting sections of imitation and homophony; this evolved into the Baroque sonata.1988, Harold Gleason, Warren Becker, Catherine Gleason, Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, page 142. From the entry polychoric
• In genres like keyboard sonatas, piano trios and songs, where manuscript circulation was light, there were relatively few spuriosities.1983, John Spitzer, Authorship and Attribution in Western Art Music (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University…. From the entry spuriosity
• Bach presented in his last sonata collection?1968, American Musicological Society, Journal of the American Musicological Society, volumes 21-22, page 434. From the entry rondeau
• Sonata was the first to get the Fluidic Sculpture makeover, but the fifth-generation Elantra ended up being the swoopiest of the fleet.2016 April 28, Tom Voelk, “Video Review: Hyundai Elantra Offers Fewer Curves, but a Better Ride”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry curve
• Many, though not all, the finales Schubert wrote for his piano sonatas prefer to roam and amble rather than explode with excitement.2008 January 16, Bernard Holland, “A Pianist Plays Middleman for Two Composers Who Spoke in Different Voices”, in New York Times. From the entry unhurriedness
• Over a sonata by Schubert he — well, I suppose I must not say that he moodled, or maundered, or anything of that sort.1931, Bernard Shaw, Music in London, 1890-94, page 154. From the entry moodle
• Notable too, if only for historical interest, was a sonata by Donizetti in which, not surprisingly, an operatically shaped flute line is set over a dramatic piano accompaniment.1988 May 1, Allan Kozinn, “Debuts; Flutist Chooses Program of Rarities”, in The New York Times. From the entry operatically
• At seven minutes past four, while a Bach sonata was purling under the din of the crowd, the President's reaching hand was struck aside, and a man lurched forward.1959, Margaret Leech, “Appointment at Buffalo”, in In the Days of McKinley, New York: Harper & Brothers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 595. From the entry purl
• As very soon she had played the only pieces of dance music she could remember, she went on to play an air from a sonata by Mozart.1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XII, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC. From the entry dance music
• Finally, Mozart's most dramatic finales and concerted numbers are more or less in sonata form, like symphonic movements, and must therefore be classed as musical prose.1902 [1898], [George] Bernard Shaw, The Perfect Wagnerite […] , second edition, London: Grant Richards, page 123. From the entry symphonic

Meaning of sonata

1. noun A musical composition for one or a few instruments, one of which is frequently a piano, in three or four movements that vary in key and tempo.

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Questions about sonata in a sentence

How do you use sonata in a sentence?

Sonata is used as a noun. For example: “We will now hear the third sonata, in A-flat.”

What is a short sentence with sonata?

“Bach presented in his last sonata collection?”

What does sonata mean?

Sonata means a musical composition for one or a few instruments, one of which is frequently a piano, in three or four movements that vary in key and tempo.