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sonatina
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A sonatina is literally a small sonata . As a musical term, sonatina has no single strict definition; it is rather a title applied by the composer to a piece that is in basic sonata form , but is shorter and lighter in character, or technically more elementary, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
short or simplified sonata, 1801, a diminutive of sonata .
Usage examples of sonatina.
Sonatina in C and then rewarded herself by playing the Mozart Sonatina, one of her favorites.
It was a hope which was already dying an hour or so later, as the last chord of the sonatina she had played.
George, the music master, flipped up his coattails, seated himself, and plunged into a Mozart sonatina, Marianne knew what she had been missing all her life.
The piano sonatina of the Funeral March, although by no means as insignificant, is nevertheless uncharacteristic in the resemblances it bears the music of Ravel.
More minute details of the Sonatine form will be given in the next chapter, in connection with the larger and more fully developed Sonata-allegro form.
George, the music master, flipped up his coattails, seated himself, and plunged into a Mozart sonatina, Marianne knew what she had been missing all her life.
She could also have shewn me a little sonatina which he had once composed for her.