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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sonata
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a violin sonata
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A gentle Mozart sonata drifted round the room.
▪ Eighteenth-century products though they were, Beethoven's three sonatas of Op. 10 all pre-echo things to come in the nineteenth.
▪ He ate lamb chops to the strains of one of Rossini's pre-adolescent sonatas.
▪ He exploited the space in an echo sonata for three violins by Marini, a charming interlude, adroitly dispatched.
▪ In the eighteenth century, with the Stamitz family, the sonata form was already treated symphonically.
▪ The earliest music Hewitt-Jones acknowledged was a cello sonata written in 1951.
▪ The Marcello is an arrangement of a cello sonata.
▪ These are not violin sonatas as we know them, rather sonatas for piano with violin accompaniment.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sonata

Sonata \So*na"ta\, n. [It., fr. It. & L. sonare to sound. See Sound a noise.] (Mus.) An extended composition for one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements; as, Beethoven's sonatas for the piano, for the violin and piano, etc.

Note: The same general structure prevails in symphonies, instrumental trios, quartets, etc., and even in classical concertos. The sonata form, distinctively, characterizes the quick opening movement, which may have a short, slow introduction; the second, or slow, movement is either in the song or variation form; third comes the playful minuet or the more modern scherzo; then the quick finale in the rondo form. But both form and order are sometimes exceptional.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sonata

1690s, from Italian sonata "piece of instrumental music," literally "sounded" (i.e. "played on an instrument," as opposed to cantata "sung"), fem. past participle of sonare "to sound," from Latin sonare "to sound," from PIE *swene-, from root *swen- "to sound" (see sound (n.1)). Meaning narrowed by mid-18c. toward application to large-scale works in three or four movements.

Wiktionary
sonata

n. (context music English) 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

WordNet
sonata

n. a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms

Wikipedia
Sonata (disambiguation)

Sonata may mean:

  • Sonata (music), a musical term for a piece played as opposed to sung
  • Sonata form, a way of organizing the composition of a work of music
  • Sonata (play), a one-act play by Indian playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar
  • Zaleplon, tradename Sonata, a very short-acting sedative used for treatment of insomnia
  • The Sonata I, II, and III, computer cases manufactured by Antec
  • Hunter Sonata, a small racing and cruising yacht built by British boat builder Hunter Boats
  • Hyundai Sonata, a sedan automobile (saloon car) built by Hyundai Motor Company
  • Sonata Dusk, a character in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Rainbow Rocks that is named after the musical term
  • Sonata Arctica, a Finnish power metal band
  • Sonata Watches, India's largest selling brand, made by Titan Industries
  • Winter Sonata, a South Korean television drama series that aired in 2002
  • Eternal Sonata, a 2007 Xbox 360 and 2008 PlayStation 3 game
  • Sonata (software), a GTK+-based GUI for the Music Player Daemon
  • Sonata Software, an Indian IT consulting and software services company
  • SONATA (anonymity software), Service-Oriented Netcoded Architecture for Tactical Anonymity, a next generation overlay network, building further on software like TOR (anonymity network)
Sonata (Moonlight)

"Sonata" is the season and series finale of the American paranormal romance television drama Moonlight, which first aired on CBS on May 16, 2008 in the United States. It was written by Ethan Erwin and Kira Snyder, and directed by Fred Toye. The series revolves around Mick St. John ( Alex O'Loughlin), a private investigator who has been a vampire for over fifty years. When a vampire threatens to name all the vampires of Los Angeles, Mick is helped by his girlfriend Beth Turner ( Sophia Myles) and the rest of the vampires to track her down.

Due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, production of Moonlight halted on December 19, 2007, and only twelve episodes of the original thirteen-episode order were made. Once the Writers' Strike ended, CBS announced that Moonlight would return April 25, 2008 with four new episodes, to be part of the series' first season. On May 13, 2008, CBS announced that Moonlight was officially canceled. "Sonata" was watched by 7.47 million viewers upon its original broadcast, and received generally positive reviews for providing closure of the characters and storylines.

Sonata (play)

Sonata is a one-act play by Indian playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar about friendship between three women.

Sonata (building design software)

Sonata was a 3D building design software application developed in the early 1980s and now regarded as the forerunner of today's building information modelling applications.

Sonata was commercially released in 1986, having been developed by Jonathan Ingram independently and was sold to T2 Solutions (renamed from GMW Computers in 1987 - which was eventually bought by Alias|Wavefront), and was sold as a successor to GMW's RUCAPS. It ran on workstation computer hardware (by contrast, other 2D CAD systems could run on personal computers). The system was not expensive, according to Michael Phiri. Reiach Hall purchased "three Sonata workstations on Silicon Graphics machines, at a total cost of approximately £2000 each" [1990 prices]. Approximately 1000 seats were sold between 1985 and 1992. However, as a BIM application, in addition to geometric modelling, it could model complete buildings, including complex parametrics, costs and staging of the construction process.

A large number of projects were designed and built using Sonata including Peddle Thorp Architect's Rod Laver Arena in 1987, and Gatwick Airport North Terminal Domestic Facility by Taylor Woodrow. The US-based architect HKS used the software in 1992 to design a horse racing facility ( Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas) and subsequently purchased the successor product, Reflex.

The Sonata business was founded in 1984 and, by one account it "disappeared in a mysterious, corporate black hole, somewhere in eastern Canada in 1992," after new owner Alias Research discontinued marketing of the product. Ingram then went on to develop Reflex, bought out by Parametric Technology Corporation ( PTC) in 1996.

As of 2016, Sonata continues to run on an occasional basis at BAM Construct (UK) in St Albans, making it the oldest running BIM system in the world.

Usage examples of "sonata".

Jack recognized that the whole sonata and particularly the chaconne was a most impressive composition he felt that if he were to go on playing it with all his heart it might lead him to very strange regions indeed.

Old Fogy played all the concertos, sonatas, studies and minor pieces worth while.

Metternich and his ever vigilant spies, the last great Russian house to keep its own full orchestra, like so many waiters for the table, ready to play the sonatas of Beethoven as soon as the ink was dry, men who could play Bach while yawning, or Vivaldi with the sweat on their foreheads, rught after night, and all this until one candle, mind you, one candle touched a bit of silk, and drafts from Hell came up to guide it through fifty rooms.

Nero had reached a particularly shrieky section of his sonata, and the children had to lean forward to one another in order to continue their conversation.

So it was that evening, for after introducing himself with a brief, braggy speech, Vice Principal Nero stood on the stage of the auditorium and began playing his sonata for the first time.

He writes fugues for organs and sonatas for violin solo under the influence of Bach, concerti grossi under the influence of Haendel, variations under that of Mozart, sonatas under that of Brahms.

In 1814 we have the lovely sonata in E minor for piano, Opus 90, and in 1818 the great sonata for hammer klavier, Opus 106.

Plato wants to banish, scrape away every fiction get down to the truth, to the naked animal banish them yes, banish the Lydian mode and the Ionian and the flute above all the flute worse than all the strings together invented for nothing but pleasure and Homer, banish Homer and all of the poets and painters and sculptors whose love poems and naked Venuses celebrate women as instruments of pleasure take that first movement of The Kreutzer Sonata, the presto you say, can we allow it to be played in a drawing room full of women in lowcut dresses?

A sonata with insects luring the entire party outside, except for Oppy and the two women.

To the neat and symmetrical periods of the Haydn symphony and sonata, with their fresh, thematic treatment, Mozart added a tender grace and sweetness like the conceptions of a Raphael in painting.

Nick spent his days at the piano, working through the Pathetique Sonata at least a dozen times a day.

Within minutes she heard the piano, the Pathetique again, third movement--she could hum the entire sonata by now.

She found Nick in the living room at Penaquoit, playing the Pathetique Sonata, and for the first time ever she interrupted his playing.

Usually it is Beethoven piano sonatas, but today it is Schubert lieder.

I found that it could be expressed with two violins and began in complete innocence, like a fledgling trying its wings, to write down my first sonata.