Associations to the word «Sonata»

Wiktionary

SONATA, noun. (music) 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
SONATA FORM, noun. (music) A form of classical music consisting of a single movement divided into three main sections, namely - the exposition (in the tonic and then another key), development (modulating in different keys) and recapitulation (returning to the tonic), sometimes followed by a coda

Dictionary definition

SONATA, noun. A musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats