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In music, an important type of instrumental composition. Although it can be a piece for a solo player or a small ensemble, it is now commonly used to describe a work for solo piano (piano sonata), or piano and one other instrument (violin sonata – violin and piano; flute sonata – flute and piano). It usually consists of three or four contrasting movements with one or more being in sonata form. The name means that the work is not beholden to a text or existing dance form, but is self-sufficient.



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"The Sonata that His Highness plays so charmingly," said the Vice-Warden.
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From the far side of the house through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages- twenty times repeated- of a sonata by Dussek.
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