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Meanings of sonata form in English

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Usage of sonata form in English
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Within the simple three-part structure of sonata form, there can be complex substructures.
Wired
2
Paralleling the progression of a feature narrative, sonata form has three main sections.
Wired
3
This is the form sometimes called the sonata form or sonata-piece.
The Masters and Their Music / A series of illustrative programs ...
4
Away with sonata form and all the odious code of rules!
Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies
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Chopin's imagination refuses to become excited when working in the open spaces of the sonata form.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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And harmonically, the whole thing also works as a classic sonata form with exposition, development and recapitulation.
Radio NZ
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And sonata form dictates repetitions and recapitulations from which the perfectly unconventional form adopted by Wagner is free.
The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring
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The general character of the sonata form, with a slow movement in the middle, necessarily amounts to an anti-climax.
The Masters and Their Music / A series of illustrative programs ...
9
As it is, the changes which have been made in sonata form since his day are merely changes of detail.
Haydn
10
Adopting the sonata form as scientifically illustrated by Emanuel Bach, he introduced it into compositions for the orchestra and the chamber.
The Great German Composers
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MacDowell never hesitated, as I have elsewhere said, to adapt-somewould say "warp"-thesonata form to the needs of his poetic purposes.
Edward MacDowell: A Study
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As yet we have not spoken of the lyric melody, which in the Beethoven sonata forms almost invariably a second subject.
The Masters and Their Music / A series of illustrative programs ...