Sonata Synonyms

Her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic.

He chose a sprightly sonata in b-flat major.

Vermont Country Store features the Eileen West Moonlight Sonata Cotton Lawn Robe.

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.

Classical and modern chamber-music in the sonata style consists mainly of string-quartets for 2 violins, viola and violoncello; string-trios (rare, because very difficult to write sonorously); pianoforte-trios (pianoforte, violin and violoncello); pianoforte-quartets (pianoforte with string-trio); pianoforte-quintets (pianoforte with string-quartet); string-quintets (with 2 violas, very rarely with 2 violoncellos), and (in two important cases by Brahms) stringsextets.