All 3 Uses of
sonata
in
This Side of Paradise
- Children, most astute of match-makers, plot their campaigns quickly, and Sally had played a clever correspondence sonata to Isabelle's excitable temperament.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- I've read 'Anna Karenina' and the 'Kreutzer Sonata' of course, but Tolstoi is mostly in the original Russian as far as I'm concerned.†
Chpt 1.4
- He could not sleep, so he turned on his reading-lamp and, taking down the "Kreutzer Sonata," searched it carefully for the germs of Burne's enthusiasm.†
Chpt 1.4
Definition:
a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms -- usually for a solo instrument, but possibly for or a small ensemble