How To Use Sonata In A Sentence
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Through the wall he was continually listening to the Bach G minor unaccompanied violin sonata.
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Two examples, from her impressive "Transformation" disc, are the pianist's soulful performance of Domenico Scarlatti's Sonata in F Minor and her sprightly, exceptionally characterful transversal of Igor Stravinsky's Three Movements From "Petrushka," a transcription based on his ballet score.
The Fast and the Serious
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The result is that this sonata sounds less like juvenilia than it usually does.
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The three sonatas are the creative backbone, each not so very much less challenging to the listener than to the player this one well in command!
Times, Sunday Times
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He put a Beethoven violin sonata on the turntable.
Seminary Boy
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The composer himself remarked on its innovation: a ‘sonata written in a concertante manner, almost like a concerto.’
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Indeed, the Sonata in G essentially transcribes an earlier work for two flutes and continuo.
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Every note he wrote will be played, from the familiar string quartets, piano concertos, violin sonatas and symphonies to more obscure compositions, such as his 100 folk songs and cantatas.
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Like sonata form it is not a rigid formula, and therefore the scheme illustrated can be taken as only a rough guide to its general features.
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Bugsy’s philosophy - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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After supper she wound up the gramophone to play the `Kreutzer" Sonata, and he told her about the story by Tolstoy, read on the troopship.
THE OPEN DOOR
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With the cello suites and the solo violin sonatas and partitas, they form a triptych of Bach at his most concentrated and intimate.
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For modern instrument accounts of Mozart's Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Steinberg and Uchida go to the head of the class.
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His string quartets and piano sonatas (particularly the enigmatic masterpieces of his final years) still rank as supreme tests of interpretation.
Times, Sunday Times
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String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 56 Voces intimae" (Sibelius, Emerson Quartet) "Piano Sonata No. 32 In C Minor, Op. 111" (Beethoven, Mitsuko Uchida)
Macworld
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Thus Skalkottas, although continuing the motivic development, follows the essential principle of traditional sonata form and resolves the previous harmonic tensions.
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The fourth movement, based on the second verse of the chorale, is written in a trio sonata-like texture for the tenors of the chorus, oboe da caccia, and continuo.
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If the Sonata be not suitable for London, I could send another, or you might omit the Largo, and begin at once with the Fugue in the last movement, or the first movement, Adagio, and the third the Scherzo, the Largo, and the Allegro risoluto.
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826
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The finale is a headlong rondo with affinities to sonata form.
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Michael Zisman, introduced as "the world's only bebop bandoneonist," contributed "Close Encounters," which also artfully blended the three genres, while an excerpt from Mr. D'Rivera's "Sonata for Clarinet and Piano" came off like a waltz in which some bandito had stolen the third beat.
Holiday Cheer
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Even so, this is a distinctly more nobby Sonata than anyone has seen, a far cry from the upper-echelon mini cab that it formerly was.
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Bach is believed to have commenced writing the Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin shortly thereafter.
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‘White Moon’ is a slow piano paean, stinging with maracas, moonlight-sonata piano, and subtle drums.
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These forms, which we may call form G, are exemplified in literature by the forms of the sonnet or of tragedy with the “three unities” (place, time, and action); in music, the forms of the fugue or sonata; in architecture, the peripteros (“array of columns”) or the Ionic order; the bosquet form in Italian and French gardening; the zwiebelmuster (“onion pattern”) design in Saxon por - celain.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Piano and cello are given equal roles in the Sonata in A (Op. 69), a break with the 18th-century format of a piano sonata accompanied by an instrumental obbligato.
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Having spent so much time on the concerto to slight the sonata may seem niggardly but I must confess that I really don't appreciate the piece enough to discuss this recording.
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He played a piano sonata of his own composition.
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There are movements from three sonatas by Scarlatti; sonatas by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, and works by Bach.
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Other unique curiosities are the 3 Sonatas that the composer wrote for each of the main woodwind instruments; oboe, bassoon and clarinet, although those for cor anglais and flute never saw the light of day.
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As a large-scale transcription of a movement from a viola da gamba sonata, Alissa Firsova's Allegro was a bright and multicoloured piece that attracted attention through its command of instruments used in breeze-block manner – sharply defined, if not exactly subtle.
Proms 38 & 39: Bach Day
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Apart from these three suites, there are two piano sonatas and just a handful of smaller works.
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Daniel Abraham's fine Bach Sinfonia and lutenist Ronn McFarlane brought all of Vivaldi's music for lute and strings -- two concertos and two trio sonatas -- to the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Performing Arts Center on Saturday and rounded out the program with a motet and two of his other concertos, and two of McFarlane's own compositions.
In performance: Bach Sinfonia
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The coda of the great Schubert B flat sonata was played at a breakneck pace and was technically perfect.
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He would often make me sit with him to listen to Don Giovanni, or the piano sonatas and fantasies, as if there were great secrets to share in the music.
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Gone are the days of programming a Bach prelude & fugue, a Beethoven sonata, a Chopin ballade and then ending with the Prokofiev Toccata.
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In a beautiful and affecting way, Shostakovich evokes the sounds of the Moonlight Sonata, the triplet arpeggios and the dotted rhythm of the main theme, without really quoting it.
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In Sonata 10 in D Major, one of the six sonatas with full recapitulations, the lyrical second theme in the dominant minor provides a marked contrast to the assertive principal one.
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He played a Beethoven sonata yesterday.
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For example, the coda of the great Schubert B flat sonata was played at a breakneck pace and was technically perfect.
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I have one quibble, but that's with the engineering, where the balance of the cello sonata's first movement allows the piano to dampen the cello often to mere buzzing.
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Brahms's Violin Concerto begins with a long ritornello, but for most 19th-century composers sonata form and the fantasia were more important than the ritornello principle.
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The "Sonata Tragica" (op. 45) begins in G minor, with a bigly passionate, slow introduction (metronomed in the composer's copy, [quarter-note]-50).
Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
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The 17th and 18th-century trio sonata was a favourite chamber ensemble, using two treble instruments and one bass, with a keyboard or lute continuo to fill in the harmony.
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One of the most famous artists to ground their work in the phoneme is the Dadaist Kurt Schwitters, whose "Ur Sonata" demilitarized language after World War I by softening and subtilizing phonemes through the performance of a score. Schwitters 'work coincides with the Russian Futurists', whose made-up language "Zaum" used phonemics to tap language's universal source, and thereby its glossolalic, transliterative potentials.
Undefined
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Thus one of the important elements of classical sonata form, the contrast between statements and developments, is rendered somewhat problematic.
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Gluzman played the songful Violin Sonata with unaffected musicality and sensitive lyricism.
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Never one to miss a business opportunity, Brahms also arranged the sonatas for viola, and I first heard them in this form.
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His surviving output consists solely of instrumental music, including organ preludes and fugues, concertos for two harpsichords, and trio sonatas, much of it strongly influenced by Bach.
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Once the new Sonata hits the road, Hyundai wants to revamp its entire lineup.
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The first half ended with the Ives Sonata No. 4, an unruly pastiche of hymns, marches and folk songs in a polytonal texture, which simply stopped mid-phrase.
Virtuoso violinist Hilary Hahn holds her audience rapt but adds some irritants
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The chance to hear Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata played on an actual arpeggione, which it virtually never is, is an instant enticement here, but listener beware: this recording is very out of tune.
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With the cello suites and the solo violin sonatas and partitas, they form a triptych of Bach at his most concentrated and intimate.
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Berg also embeds within the score a number of self-contained closed forms: sonata-allegro, rondo, variation, canzonetta, cavatina, etc.
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After tea, we were entertained with a sonata on the harpsichord by lady Bullford, who sung and played to admiration; but Sir Thomas seemed to be a little asinine in the article of ears, though he affected to be in raptures, and begged his wife to favour us with an arietta of her own composing. —
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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From the gentle questioning of the First Sonata's introduction to the insanely entertaining Follia variations at the end, this is a recording that will open ears and minds.
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The first woman pupil of Stanford at the Royal College of Music, she was also one of the leading viola-players of her time, and her prize-winning Viola Sonata is now firmly re-established in the regular repertory.
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He played an early little sonata of Mozart's, which he magicked into a masterpiece with his deft touch.
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Many of these sonatas might almost be called rhapsodies; certainly a great many movements are rhapsodical.
Purcell
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he studied the score of the sonata
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In it, in fact, Beethoven may be said to have broken away from form, for after the word sonata he adds the qualifying phrase "quasi una fantasia," signifying that, although he calls the work a sonata, it has the characteristics of a free fantasy.
The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players
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This proved rewarding in Brahms's Sonata No 1 in E minor Op 38, in which the balanced dialogue between instruments, from the breathless angst of the first movement to the fugal exchanges of the last, suited them ideally.
Antonio Meneses and Maria João Pires; La traviata – review
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A study in 1993 found that listening to the same sonata could also improve spatial reasoning skills for a short time afterwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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And two of his last three sonatas end with pianissimo—extremely softly.
Vienna's Classical Iconoclast
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[5] The term piano trio is used to signify a piece for piano, violin, and 'cello, in full sonata form.
Woman's Work in Music
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Kletzki's symphony is an unsettling work, written in German fugal modes and sonata form that stretch back to Bach and Haydn yet rippling with refugee jitters, the rhythms of dispossession.
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The menu is varied with a meaty violin sonata.
Times, Sunday Times
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Berg also embeds within the score a number of self-contained closed forms: sonata-allegro, rondo, variation, canzonetta, cavatina, etc.
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At the very first bars of the intensely passionate allegro, the beginning of the sonata, I felt that numbness, that chill and sweet terror of ecstasy, which instantaneously enwrap the soul when beauty bursts with sudden flight upon it.
The Jew and other stories
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The programme for the evening comprises four of the ten sonatas Beethoven composed for piano and violin.
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El conegut adagio del authority moviment de la sonata fourteen de L. Beethoven, coneguda com Clar de Lluna (Mondschein), interpretat per Alfred Brendel;
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Te Deums; six psalms; twenty anthems; three German operas; one English opera; thirty-nine Italian operas; two Italian serenatas, two English serenatas; one Italian intermezzo, "Terpsichore"; four odes; twenty-four chamber duets; ninety-four cantatas; seven French songs; thirty-three concertos; nineteen English songs; sixteen Italian airs; twenty-four sonatas.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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The wiry, plangent sound of Kurosaki's 1801 violin is perfectly complemented by the percussive but singing tone of Linda Nicholson's Viennese fortepiano, especially effective in the powerful C minor Sonata Op 30 No 2.
Beethoven: violin sonatas vol 4, op 30 nos 1 - 3; violin sonatas 'Kreutzer' op 47, no 10 op 96
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And, in the recollection of the father's clumsy attempt to play the adagio from Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata, our sympathy for him is short-circuited by the daughter's memory of her own laughter.
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A few late 16th and early 17th-century instruction manuscripts have survived with military calls, short fanfares (It.: toccata, whence tucket), and longer flourishes (It.: sonata, whence sennet) written out.
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The sonata is a major work that combines the young composer's acerbic wit and uncompromising harmonic astringency with a lyrical bent and cross-cultural echoes of Far Eastern musical modes.
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The canzonas and sonatas are unsurpassed - in scale, expressive range, and sheer idiomatic flair - in the entire sixteenth-century instrumental repertoire.
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He encroached on such EMI memorabilia as Menuhin in the Elgar concerto, Artur Schnabel in the Beethoven sonatas and Casals in the Bach suites, which had never fallen out of print.
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As a nice bit of lagniappe, Pierian provides comparison recordings: Granados playing his own ‘free transcription’ of a Scarlatti sonata in a Welte-Mignon roll and an acoustic recording made at roughly the same time.
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Like the third, this fourth sonata is more of a 'bardic' rhapsody on the subject than an attempt at actual presentation of it, although I have made use of all the suggestion of tone-painting in my power, ” just as the bard would have reinforced his speech with gesture and facial expression.”
Edward MacDowell
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Music was merely one of its wider highways, yet it invented operas, virtuosi, concertos, sonatas, guitars, violins and orchestras.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the Brahms and the Haydn he learned three preludes and fugues of Bach, two Beethoven sonatas, a nocturne by Chopin, and pieces by Schumann and Ravel.
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(Soundbite of song, "Piano Sonata No. 2") Mr. SCHIFF: This is largo appassionato.
Andras Schiff Surmounts Beethoven's Sonatas
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Because of prior arrangements, or perhaps because of laziness, Mozart did not get the sheet music to Strinassachi until the day of the performance, meaning she sight-read the entire sonata.
Author Carrie Lofty on When Regina Met Mozart
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The piano sonata was badly executed.
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It will be a nonunion shop whose first-year production will be 150,000 Sonata sedans for the U.S. market.
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This came up at the judication at the Karnataka High Court, so it was not just Sonata Software, there were another
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The Prokofiev sonata comes first on the disc.
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The opening of the Sonata's first movement, for example, blends serialism and passacaglia in a way prefigured in the opera's final scene.
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Germans never applaud between the movements of a sonata, or before the end of an act at the opera.
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These are the opening chords of a sonata.
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He is working on a clarinet sonata as a part of his studies in music composition.
Times, Sunday Times
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Brahms bookended the concert with the first of the op. 120 sonatas in F minor.
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It would have been wonderful if Serkin had recorded all thirty-two Beethoven piano sonatas when he was in his prime, but it was not to be.
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This pairing of the two violin sonatas is also extremely important for the composer's discography and also includes a number of short rare pieces that add to the enticement of the disc as a whole.
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As a theorist he was influential in the codification of sonata form and other musical structures.
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Germans never applaud between the movements of a sonata, or before the end of an act at the opera.
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In Corelli's concerti grossi the trio-sonata instrumentation of two violins and continuo was used for the concertino sections, contrasting with the full string ensemble.
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Although I found his interpretation of the sonata a shade tame, the variations and ballades breathe a truly Olympian spirit of resigned grief.
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To the dreamy melody of a Beethoven piano sonata, a child-like model rummaged through a trunk overflowing with clothes on a set designed as a girl's bedroom.
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a masterly performance of the sonata
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His first piano sonata, string quartet and chamber ensemble pieces are Beethovenian in form and content.
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Choices include the third movement of violin sonata no. 24 in C major (the high tones of the violin work wonders on the parasympathetic nerve), first movement of the oboe quartet in F major (the high frequency tones have a soothing effect on the cranial nerves) and the second movement of 35th symphony in D major (the calm arpeggios relieve tension from the body).
Medically proven Mozart music for mobiles
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As the composer explained to the violist for whom this sonata was created, ‘the first movement is a novella, the second is a scherzo, and the finale is an adagio in memory of Beethoven.’
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Above all, it faced the progressive movement of the civilisation of the book, enveloping discordance like the resolving refrain of a Beethoven sonata.
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The 17th and 18th-century trio sonata was a favourite chamber ensemble, using two treble instruments and one bass, with a keyboard or lute continuo to fill in the harmony.
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The recurrence of the movement's introduction signals the sonata's final stages.
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Thus he wrote to Artaria in 1788: "I was obliged to buy a new forte-piano, that I might compose your clavier sonatas particularly well.
Chopin and Other Musical Essays
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A good example for me, just because it's something I'm very familiar with, is Bach's solo violin sonatas... the sonatas are really difficult to play, and some of them I just feel are so beautifully composed and others are a little clunkier.
Daniel J. Kushner: Ecstatic Music Festival Interview #4: Owen Pallett
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He was a prolific composer, writing symphonies, concertos, sonatas, and dramatic works.
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That was in the middle Sonata in A major.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each of the first movements is, in its way, a grand synthesis of ritornello and sonata form: only one, K.449, modulates out of the home key in the opening tutti.
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The violinist, Ma, plays the opening bars of a Mozart sonata, and the unaccustomed cadences and harmonies of classical western melody are like strange birdsong.
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After 1783 he turned to less weighty genres aimed at the amateur solo player, producing keyboard sonatas, sonatinas, and capriccios, programme works, and towards the end of his life some contrapuntal teaching pieces.
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Pale-capped pigeon Columba punicea (VU) in the evergreen forest, green peafowl Pavo muticus (VU) and silver oriole Oriolus mellianus (VU) in the dipterocarp/deciduous forest and masked finfoot Heliopais personata (VU) from the riverside are resident. 53 species are considered nationally threatened or near threatened, including four species of hornbill, Siamese fireback pheasant Lophura diardi, the rare silver pheasant Lophura nycthemera and the mountain imperial pigeon Ducula badia.
Dong Phayayan Khao-Yai Forest Complex, Thailand
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He was a prolific composer, writing symphonies, concertos, sonatas, and dramatic works.
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His interpretations of Beethoven are remarkably vigorous, plumbing the depths of the darker later sonatas while retaining a strong hint of the vigour of early Beethoven.
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I love the piece, the Trio, the Flute Sonata, Dialogues des Carmelites, and Fiancailles pour rire (how can you resist a text like "my cadaver is soft as a glove"?) but I think maybe you're reading history back into the Sextet, rather than finding it there.
Les anges musiciens
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Richter later spent some time in America, where, among other things, he collaborated with Jean Cocteau on the late surrealist romp 8x8: A Chess Sonata (portions of which are also online — check out this sequence featuring Paul Bowles awakening to compose from a slowly draining swimming pool.) posted by Matthew @ 10: 00 AM
Hats Off
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Its intention, however, was, this time, merely to shew me the way, which was not the way of the sonata, for this was an unpublished work of Vinteuil in which he had merely amused himself, by an allusion which was explained at this point by a sentence in the programme which one ought to have been reading simultaneously, in making the little phrase reappear for a moment.
The Captive
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For instance, two of his sonatas, one for violin, gamba and continuo and the other for two violins, gamba and continuo contain similarly decorated cadential material.
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The book contains a variety of styles, including sonata, tarantella and waltz, allowing students and teachers to explore the wide range of technical, musical and ensemble challenges in this literature.
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Our customers look to ASUS to provide cost effective solutions that include innovative features such as the Sonata Long Life Battery, which offers not only long term dependability but is also environmentally friendly," said Rudy Magna, Director of Sales, ASUS Computer
Engadget
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The writer is shrewd enough not to cite only chorale works but the six trio sonatas, ‘which are written in such galant style that they still sound very good, and never grow old’.
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Schroter's concertos, some of my pianoforte sonatas, the sinfonie concertante, two quartets for the flute, and a concerto for harp and flute [Kochel, No. 298, 299].
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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the ultimate sonata of that opus
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The Sonata was the overall winner when we combined scores from the family and six auto writers.
What would you pick in the $25,000 Family Sedan Shootout?
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Perhaps they miss something of the impetuosity of the first movement of the Kreutzer, the violent physical impact that Beethoven brought to music (and which is anticipated in the fiery C minor sonata).
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For instance, two of his sonatas, one for violin, gamba and continuo and the other for two violins, gamba and continuo contain similarly decorated cadential material.
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The core group plays the first three items, Antheil's second violin sonata, three preludes for piano by Gordon Rumson, and Takemitsu's piano trio, Between Tides.
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If piano students are playing Mozart and Haydn sonatas, Chopin nocturnes and Debussy preludes, they certainly are capable of playing some chamber music repertoire.
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His early works included songs, piano sonatas, and choral pieces, but from 1826 to 1833 he wrote music for burlesques, farces, and melodramas.
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These six works, written in a year, are in a direct line from Bach's solo violin sonatas and partitas.
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The mystery of the sonata's opening chords has rarely been so magical!
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Neither, however, can it afford to just broadcast a mishmash of different types of music: a Beethoven piano sonata followed by a Sex Pistols track, say.
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She bows, turns stage left, and exits to the strains of the piano sonata.
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This is not necessarily a fault, as both composers saw the violin as an equal partner at best, and even described their earlier sonatas in this genre as works for piano with violin accompaniment.
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Contrary to popular belief his op. 5 sonatas are not solo works but duos for violin and violone, which, like the opp. 2 and 4 dance suites, require no keyboard accompaniment.
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His compositions comprise mainly chamber music, including string quartets and accompanied keyboard sonatas.
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To a background of Mozart sonatas, she showed tweeds, herringbones and plaids in outfits that featured long skirts and a wide variety of hats, including men's-style fedoras and bowlers, some in striking midnight blue.
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Yet this same musician played the Blues movement of the Ravel Sonata with the jazzy verve of a Stephane Grappelli.
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His work - in the traditional, classical style of the sonata form - is so in structure, but not overtly so in its music.
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No doubt the glowing septet differed singularly from the candid sonata; the timid question to which the little phrase replied, from the breathless supplication to find the fulfilment of the strange promise that had resounded, so harsh, so supernatural, so brief, setting athrob the still inert crimson of the morning sky, above the sea.
The Captive
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The bird assemblage also includes the globally threatened lesser adjutant (Leptoptilos javanicus) and threatened masked finfoot (Heliopais personata).
Sundarbans mangroves
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Touches are varied, legato, staccato - at times both used together in separate hands, and forms include simple sonata form, minuet, rondo, and theme and variations.
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He experimented clandestinely with composing trio sonatas, a number of which he published only in the 1720s.
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Still, despite moments of surprise and invention, the overwhelming sense in this episodic collage of concerti, suites and sonatas -- all of them recorded -- was of clever ideas stretched too thin.
Compañía Nacional de Danza at Kennedy Center, reviewed by Sarah Kaufman
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He played a piano sonata of his own composition.
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The piano sonatas of Prokofiev are considered as the masterpieces that inherit the classical piano art tradition and begin the new style of the twentieth century.
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The Beethoven sonatas, recorded two years later in Munich, sound considerably better.
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The Beethoven Violin Sonata in C minor is admirably played, and arrangements of Shostakovich piano preludes make an attractive opener to a stimulating programme.
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The solution to the problem is that Corelli's Concerti Grossi are central to the string repertoire but not so much the sonatas.
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This sonata is a major piece of music for both the violin and, in transcription, the guitar.
The Boy from Thuringia
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Thus a sonata exposition, which in Mozart or Beethoven may often have two contrasting themes, is said to have a ‘first subject’ and a ‘second subject’.
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In both the first and third movements I was often reminded of the toccata-like sections of Prokofiev's sonatas and concertos, though Lees' melodic and harmonic approaches are quite different.
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The sextet that performed (a pair each of violins and violas, and a continuo pairing of cello and harpsichord) offered a mixed baroque program in which three string sonatas by Tomaso Albinoni were heard alongside concertos and sonatas by Bach and Vivaldi, and by the less-encountered Georg Muffat and Henricus Albicastro.
Music review: Ensemble 415 at Library of Congress
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His vocalising tends to come in louder passages, like the brusque opening of the finale of Beethoven's F sharp major Sonata Op 78, and is more of an exclamatory or even explosive release.
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The term sonata was originally used in two senses: in its larger sense it indicates an extended musical composition with three or four movements, all which taken together form the sonata.
The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations
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Finally, when her instrument was in tune, she gave Darcy the signal, and he played the opening bars of the sonata.
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There is, I believe, no composition in the whole world that shows with the same distinctness the soul torn by tragic conflict; especially in the third part of the Sonata, the _Presto-agitato_.
Without Dogma
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‘Eccentric’ may also apply in a more dominant way to her rendering of the Second Sonata.
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His obsessive use of acciaccaturas, trills and mordents not only reflected the Spanish and Portuguese music of 18th Century that inspired him in his sonatas, but also enhanced the excitement and glory of his music.
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Only the bass line and six bars of melody had survived, possibly from the slow movement of a Trio Sonata.
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There is also a C.P.E. Bach Sonata here, transcribed and sounding delightful with its switch of instrument.
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They shared a love of music and they would play violin sonatas together, Einstein on the violin and Born on piano.
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Two of the 1681 sonatas, #IV and #VI, employ scordatura effects in which individual strings (one or more) are tuned away from their neighbors by other than the usual interval of a fifth.
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In instrumental music, the rococo keyboard sonatas of Seixas rivalled those of Domenico Scarlatti, who worked at John's court between 1719 and 1728.
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He is working on a clarinet sonata as a part of his studies in music composition.
Times, Sunday Times
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only a fair performance of the sonata
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So a real live concert pianist of thirty-five years turns her hand to writing and you have to envy such latent talent and be very grateful that it emerged, because there is nothing I can find to criticise in Jeannette Haien's style, it flows like a perfect little sonata all of its own.
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the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata
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The violin sonata in F opens with an ostinato that surely outstays its welcome.
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Referred to jokily in some correspondence as “Waldstein”—the name of Roald’s favorite Beethoven piano sonata—in letters home, he was also portrayed melodramatically as “a dark cunning little Jew.”
Storyteller
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Sonata for violin and chamber orchestra.
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His 1781 discovery of the planet Uranus has overshadowed his musical compositions (18 symphonies, two viola and one oboe concerto, nine sonatas and various keyboard and vocal music).
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His compositions comprise mainly chamber music, including string quartets and accompanied keyboard sonatas.
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To a background of Mozart sonatas, she showed a variety of tweeds, herringbones and plaids in outfits that featured long skirts and a wide variety of hats, including men's style fedoras and bowlers, some in striking midnight blue.
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Although these sonatas do not add up to music of enormous consequence, Schultz and Schenkman bestow royal treatment upon them.
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Out of this dialectical imitation, this not wholly fictive dialogue, Schoenberg's twelve-tone sonata locates itself in the German tradition, which is made to anticipate and authorize his development of that tradition.
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For me, the violin and the cello sonatas share many of the glories of that cycle.
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Her work has involved plotting a map of 27,000 dead stars, bouncing Beethoven's Moonlight sonata off the moon in morse code and returning the results into a self-playing piano, making an electric light bulb that duplicates moonlight.
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In the first movement of Sonata 7 in B major the six-bar transition section moves through the tonic minor, the lowered mediant, and the minor dominant before leading to the second theme area in the dominant major.
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Designed as a meditation on the Passionstory, it's an austere, rather forbidding piece: the style of the motets (which may be performed as aseparate sequence) harksback to Renaissance polyphony without a greatdeal of contrast or dynamic variety, while the sonatas arefar moredramatic: sometimes full ofdense, packed dissonances; at othersfragile and provisional.
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Years later when Beth played Mozart Sonatas and Chopin Nocturnes, we experimented with putting down the keys in various ways to get the velvety legatos or sparkling staccatos called for in the music.
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His compositions comprise mainly chamber music, including string quartets and accompanied keyboard sonatas.
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Although Kuhlau wrote an extensive number of ambitious sonatas and variations, his piano music has become practically synonymous with his sonatinas.
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The concept of a dialogue was enhanced in the Classical period by a growing distinction in ‘public’ concertos between the grand symphonic manner of orchestral tuttis and the more intimate sonata style of solo passages.
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The 31 notated Sonatas represent Gunnar Johansen's great contribution to the performing repertoire.
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Local associations within the state present additional programs such as recitals, sonata / sonatina competitions, master classes and festivals.
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The Organ Sonata #2 (for a burial ceremony) is an imposing work based on church chorales, but interspersed with moments of extreme romantic fervour.
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There was something dangerous about what followed, something not unlike the edge of madness or at least of a nightmare; and although 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.
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The 2. 4-liter inline-four-cylinder engine is the same one in the basic Sonata but recalibrated to utilize a more fuel-efficient Atkinson cycle, since the electric motor alleviates the need for extra torque from the gas engine.
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Among them is a remarkably good piano quintette, while she has also written a sonata and a romanza for violin and piano, besides several beautiful songs.
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Often, at pedagogy conferences, we witness prodigiously talented fourteen-year-olds taking a master lesson in huge pieces like Prokofiev sonatas or Chopin scherzos.
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The Sonata echoes jazz in another way, though, in that the material Carter is putting through his favored paces is often quasi-vernacular, rather than newly-invented — for example, the forlana rhythm that permeates the third movement — and we're more conscious of the manipulations, like an improvisation over familiar changes.
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Mattheson's impressive Sonata and Suite make a fine exploration of the rich and powerful sonorities from two similar harpsichords.
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Touchingly, in his own lecture on the Variations, Schoenberg cites Brahms's F major Cello Sonata and Violin Concerto as pieces that were thought of as "indigestible" and
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The violinist plays the opening bars of a Mozart sonata, and the unaccustomed cadences and harmonies of classical western melody are like strange birdsong.
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The Bristol instrument and indeed Adrian Partington are at their most convincing when there is a constant flow of music, as in the fugal development to the sonata's finale.
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He deliberately gave his emotions free rein as he played the sonata.
