: an instrumental musical composition typically of three or four movements in contrasting forms and keys
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Denk had previously, marvelously, recorded Ives’s two piano sonatas.
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Oussama Zahr, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
The program will pair J.S. Bach’s sonatas with Iyer’s compositions.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
Be open always to the world around you, and the sighting of a fox, say, or a Mozart sonata overheard on a neighbor’s radio, will be reason enough to revel.
—airmail.news, 9 Sep. 2024
Two of Beethoven’s most philosophical, probing sonatas frame a suite of jazz, ragtime, and popular song — from Joplin to Nina Simone … Charles Ives didn’t just want to mix popular and classical music.
—Jane Levere, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Oussama Zahr, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
The program will pair J.S. Bach’s sonatas with Iyer’s compositions.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
Be open always to the world around you, and the sighting of a fox, say, or a Mozart sonata overheard on a neighbor’s radio, will be reason enough to revel.
—airmail.news, 9 Sep. 2024
Two of Beethoven’s most philosophical, probing sonatas frame a suite of jazz, ragtime, and popular song — from Joplin to Nina Simone … Charles Ives didn’t just want to mix popular and classical music.
—Jane Levere, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Sonata.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sonata. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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sonata
noun
so·na·ta
sə-ˈnät-ə 
: a piece of music written for instruments and usually having three or four main parts in different styles and different keys
Medical Definition
Sonata
trademark
So·na·ta
sō-ˈnä-tə
—used for a preparation of zaleplon
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