All 3 Uses of
sonata
in
War and Peace
- 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.†
Chpt 1 *
- They went up to the door of the sitting room from which came the sound of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata.†
Chpt 1
- Her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(sonata) a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms -- usually for a solo instrument, but possibly for or a small ensemble