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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 ]
Sonata – Composition for one or more instruments, typically in three or four movements. Flute sonata – Sonata specifically composed for the flute. Sonatina – Short sonata, often simpler in structure and melody, used as a teaching tool or for less formal occasions. Trio sonata – Form of sonata for two melodic instruments and basso continuo.
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Sonata for 8 H 548 (date unknown) Johann Sebastian Bach. Sonatas for solo violin (BWV 1001, 1003 and 1005) Sonatas for flute and continuo (BWV 1034, 1035)
Sonatina for flute and piano (1947) Paul Hindemith. Sonata for flute and piano (1936) Bertold Hummel. Sonatina for flute and piano, Op. 107a (2001) Johann Nepomuk Hummel. Sonata in D, Op. 50 (c1810–14) Sonata in A, Op. 64 (c1814–15) Philipp Jarnach. Sonatina for flute and piano, Op. 12 (1919) Sándor Jemnitz. Sonata for flute and piano, Op ...
Beethoven's 'Kreutzer' sonata is frequently performed. Mozart was instrumental in the development of the classical violin sonata of which at least 36 are known. Mozart wrote mostly two movement sonatas, generally a fast movement in sonata form and a second, slower movement in various formats.
The instrument has been known by its modern English name at least since the fourteenth century. David Lasocki reports the earliest use of "recorder" in the household accounts of the Earl of Derby (later King Henry IV) in 1388, which register i. fistula nomine Recordour (one pipe called 'Recordour').
Although various composers in the 17th century had written keyboard pieces which they entitled "Sonata", it was only in the classical era, when the piano displaced the earlier harpsichord and sonata form rose to prominence as a principle of musical composition, that the term "piano sonata" acquired a definite meaning and a characteristic form.