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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 ]
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
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 all along his active years.
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 ...
In music a sonata (/ s ə ˈ n ɑː t ə /; pl. sonate) [a] literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian cantare, "to sing"), a piece sung. [1]: 17 The term evolved through the history of music, designating a variety of forms until the Classical era, when it took on increasing importance.
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In the following passage, according to Richard Taruskin, [19] "its descending whole-step/half-step bass progression is complete and continuous". Scarlatti Sonata K319, bars 62–80 Scarlatti's Sonata K. 319, bars 62–80. Taruskin [20] also cites the following bars from J. S. Bach's English Suite No. 3 as octatonic: