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music-glossary: sonata

 
 1.281 sonata
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 ES: sonata, I: sonata, F: sonate, D: Sonate, NL: sonate, DK: sonate, S:
 sonat, FI: sonaatti.
 
    In its present-day meaning a sonata denotes an instrumental
 composition for piano or for some other instrument with piano
 accompaniment, which consists of three or four independent pieces,
 called movements.
 
 
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