0 a piece of music in three or four parts, either for a piano or for another instrument, such as a violin, sometimes also with a piano
1 a piece of music in three or four parts, either for a piano or for another instrument, such as a violin, sometimes also with a piano
Much recent writing concerning the early eighteenth-century sonata has focused on a subgenre that appropriates stylistic elements from more fully scored works.
Those looking for a single clear and internally consistent set of rules to guide modern performers of eighteenth-century sonatas are once again out of luck.
Yet this conclusion causes problems in the context of what we understand about the sonata in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
His sonatas show great concern with virtuosity of the bow, alternating sequential patterns with the articulation of ornaments.
At the start, in the eighteenth century, development was a small part of the sonata.
It started life as a single-span sonata but is formally unconvincing as a stand-alone work.
Many parts of the interior of this circle are shared among different sonatas, since the same ideas are reused several times.
Elsewhere, in the first movements of the trio and the sonata, their gradation of dynamic is often finely judged and is sometimes accompanied with rubato.
