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SONATA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sonata" is a kind of...):
classical; classical music; serious music (traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste)
Meronyms (parts of "sonata"):
movement (a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sonata"):
piano sonata (a sonata for piano)
sonatina (a short and simple sonata)
symphonic music; symphony (a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra)
