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The Sonata What is a sonata? Literally translated, it simply means ‘instrumental piece’. It is the epitome of instrumental music, and is certainly the oldest and most enduring form of ‘pure’ and independent instrumental composition, beginning around 1600 and lasting to the present day. Thomas
In relation to classical music, sonata means the piece is performed by an instrument typically a piano or another instrument accompanied by a piano – rather than being something that is performed vocally (the term ' cantata ' is used to describe a piece that is sung).
This dissertation seeks to introduce, identify, and document a set of syntactic insertions in sonata forms that I call extrinsic phrases. At its most basic, "extrinsic phrase" refers to any phrase-length insertion between the transition and secondary theme of a sonata-form movement.
reassessment ofthe ‘Moonlight’Sonata’s place in Beethoven’s work. To do so it has been necessary to emulate the sonata and break with a tradition. Unlike the other Cambridge Music Handbooks this book focuses neither on a single work nor on a complete repertoire.My deci-sion to discuss two sets of sonatas dating from 1801–3 has been moti-
sonata-oriented musical structure can seem distorted, transgressive, or inexplicable until they are processed through a productive hermeneutic lens—such as Sonata Theory—that can interpret the significance and potential purpose of that deformational moment.
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This study describes a set of salient formal norms for the eighteenth-century Spanish keyboard sonata through an application of Hepokoski and Darcy's sonata theory, William Caplin's form-functional theory, and Robert Gjerdingen's schema theory.
