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Sonata (music)


 

Sonata (From Latin and Italian sonare, 'to sound'), in music, literally means a piece "played" as opposed to cantata (Latin cantare, to sing), a piece sung. The term, being vague, naturally evolved through the history of music, designating a variety of forms prior to the Classical era. The term would take on increasing importance in the classical period, and by the early 19th century the word came to be used for a principle of composing large scale works, and be applied to most instrumental genres, regarded alongside the fugue as the fundamental method of organizing, interpreting and analyzing concert music. In the 20th century the term continued to be applied to instrumental works, but the formal principles enunciated and taught through the 19th century were weakened or loosened.

Famous Sonatas

Classical (ca 1760-ca 1830)

Romantic (ca 1830-ca 1900)

  • Franz Schubert, (See List of Schuberts works)
  • Sonata in C minor (D 958)(September 1828)
  • Sonata in A major (D 959) (September 1828)
  • Sonata in B-flat major (D 960) (September 1828)
  • Robert Schumann
  • Piano Sonata in F? minor opus 11
  • Piano Sonata in F minor opus 14
  • Violin Sonata No 1 in A minor op. 105
  • Violin Sonata No 2 in D minor op. 121
  • Piano Sonata No 2 in G minor op. 22
  • Frédéric Chopin
  • Piano Sonata #1 in C minor
  • Piano Sonata #2 in B? minor op. 35, "Funeral March"
  • Piano Sonata #3 in B minor op. 58
  • Cello Sonata in G minor op. 65
  • Felix Mendelssohn
  • Sonata in E major, op. 6
  • Sonata in G minor, op. 105
  • Sonata in B-flat major, op. 106
  • Cello Sonata in B-flat op. 45
  • Cello Sonata in D op. 58
  • Franz Liszt
  • Sonata after a Reading of Dante (Fantasia Quasi Sonata)
  • Sonata in B minor
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 "Rain Sonata"
  • Cello Sonata No. 1
  • Peter Tchaikovsky
  • Piano Sonata in G op. 37 "Grande Sonate"
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Cello Sonata in G minor
  • Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor
  • Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor
  • César Franck Violin Sonata in A (sometimes played on cello and now also on flute)
  • Edvard Grieg
  • Piano Sonata Opus 7
  • Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor opus 45
  • Cello Sonata in A minor opus 36
  • Edward Elgar
  • Violin Sonata opus 82

20th Century (Including Modern) (ca 1910-2000)

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~ Table of Content ~

►Introduction
►Usage of "sonata"
►Forces
►Brief history of the usage of sonata
►The Sonata in scholarship and musicology
►See also
►Famous Sonatas
►References

 

 

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