: an instrumental musical composition typically of three or four movements in contrasting forms and keys
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Recent Examples on the WebIverson is joined by formidable musical colleagues — violinist Pauline Kim Harris, drummer Vincent Sperrazza, and bassist Dylan Stone — in a succinct performance of his lively, jazzy four-part sonata. Janine Parker, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022 If Debussy had never composed a sonata in 1915 for the novel combination of flute, viola and harp, the Myriad Trio (and other such trios) might not exist.San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022 Ma then started humming the cello part of the sonata and looked at Washington expectedly. Serena Puang, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2022 The third sonata is the first time historically where there is a truly equal partnership between the cello and the piano. Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2022 Yet the cello sonata shows his concurrent predilection for conservative neoclassicism.San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022 The programming trajectory of the first half of the evening from teacher to student was reversed in the second half, beginning with Karen Khachaturian’s cello sonata from 1966.San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022 With sonata forms for the first and last movements, a second movement Adagio and a Scherzo for the third movement, its structure is conventional.San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2022 Haydn’s music was quite accessible, Bengtson said, but the piece Huydts wrote based on a Haydn sonata is very difficult. Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2022 See More