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A story in three moods: argue, brood, dance — then shut up.
means A musical composition, usually for one or two instruments, built from several contrasting movements that develop a theme rather than just repeating it.
from From Italian sonata, 'sounded' — the feminine past participle of sonare, 'to sound,' from Latin sonare. It arose as the deliberate opposite of cantata ('sung thing'): a cantata was for voices, a sonata was for instruments alone. The term drifted for a couple of centuries — early sonatas were loose instrumental pieces — before settling, by the Classical era, into the structured multi-movement form we mean today.
- origin
- from sonare, to sound, not sing
- structure
- exposition fights itself before resolving
- beethoven
- wrote 32, each a different argument
- form vs feeling
- strict blueprint, infinite emotional range