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A sonatina (French: “sonatine”, German: “Sonatine") is a small sonata. As a musical term, sonatina has no single strict definition; it is rather a title applied by the composer to a piece that is in basic sonata form , but is shorter and lighter in character, or technically more elementary, than a typical sonata. [ 1 ]
Sonatina, Sz. 55, BB. 69 is a piece for solo piano written in 1915 by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. Initially entitled Sonatina on Romanian folk tunes , it is based on folk tunes Bartók collected in his neighbour country Romania , which, even though he proclaimed Hungarian folk music was clearly superior, was a direct source of inspiration ...
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
The four short movements of the sonatina each exhibit a simple and clear, formal structure (hence the diminutive, cf. sonata).They all contain themes, which, like those already found in his other American chamber works (the String Quartet in F and the String Quintet in E ♭), owe their inspiration to Indian melodies and Negro spirituals, which are characterized by pentatonic scales and ...
A 6 December 1915 advertisement promoting the premiere of Sibelius's Violin Sonatina. The Violin Sonatina received its premiere in Helsinki, Finland on 6 December 1915, on occasion of the semi-centennial of Sibelius's birth (during which there were many concerts celebrating the composer); the soloists were the Polish-American violinist Richard Burgin and the Finnish pianist Eino Lindholm [].
Polyphonic instruments, such as the guitar, piano, and harp, can play multiple notes at once, and so can play both monophonic and polyphonic pieces. Bowed string instruments, such as the violin , viola , cello , and double bass , are capable of playing polyphony, but aren't capable of playing triads , or complete chords.
This group of instruments includes all keyboard percussion and mallet percussion instruments and nearly all melodic percussion instruments. Those three groups are themselves overlapping, having many instruments in common. Angklung [1] Celesta [2] Chime bar; Cup chime [3] Glockenspiel; Hand chime; Marimba; Metallophone; Piano; Steel pan; Tubular ...
Musical instruments used in Baroque music were partly used already before, partly are still in use today, but with no technology. [1] The movement to perform music in a historically informed way, trying to recreate the sound of the period, led to the use of historic instruments of the period and to the reconstruction of instruments.