How to Use sonata in a Sentence

sonata

noun

• To encounter one of the late sonatas on a recital program is a treat.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023
• So there can be four, five, even six players in a trio sonata.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
• Her recital, sold out, was all Schubert – three sonatas.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• Its four short movements assume the overall shape of a sonata.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2023
• This sonata is on a grand scale — playing all the repeats takes 45 minutes.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• In Shostakovich’s earthier sonata, the somberness competes with the grotesque.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
• Even five years earlier, in one of his finest piano sonatas, Op.
  — Tim Page, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
• The New York native is the first American pianist to record all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• What makes this one different is that the Haydn sonatas chosen tend to veer away from the old favorites (such as the inevitable No.
  — Olin Chism, star-telegram, 26 May 2017
• The duo will perform violin sonatas by Beethoven, Debussy and Franck.
  — Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2024
• There was one major plus: Grewe’s joyful performance of a Haydn sonata (No. 33 this time).
  — Olin Chism, star-telegram.com, 26 May 2017
• At the moment, researchers are a long way from playing a convincing sonata.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 24 Nov. 2021
• Asakura prepared to play the sonata a second time, this time without the rack that holds the sheet music, opening up the piano’s sound even more.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
• In the 11th sonata, which meditates on the resurrection of Jesus, the central strings are even crossed.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
• Pianist Jonathan Biss will conclude his three-year cycle of the Beethoven piano sonatas with two solo recitals.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Let her miserable sonata fade into the background of your life, rather than buying front-row seats three or four nights a week.
  — Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 27 Mar. 2017
• Debussy’s sonata, his last major work, supports that idea.
  — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
• At the heart of the sonata, an intensely lyrical slow movement recalls Poulenc’s choral music.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2021
• This movie is slight by comparison—a sonata instead of a string quartet.
  — Brandon Wilson, Chron, 1 Dec. 2022
• Lenin has no use for art, though his wife describes him as being unnervingly moved by a Beethoven sonata.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
• Kavakos and Wang captured the sonata’s eeriness and its intensity.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2021
• The researchers also saw a similar effect when the sonata was played at 75% of its original speed.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• The overall flow is very much like preparing a symphony or a piano sonata.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2022
• Full of tragic power, the sonata is arguably Beethoven’s darkest and most aggressive work.
  — Paavali Jumppanen, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
• The system also could extend the length of decay of sound, which was evident when Ewer played a movement from a Bach sonata.
  — oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021
• Simply put your finger down and twirl the circle to pick any one of the moods that arise: Passionate (a Schumann sonata for violin and piano)!
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 15 May 2019
• Debussy wasn’t the first to combine those instruments, but his sonata was the first memorable work for that ensemble.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022
• One of them focusses on Sibelius; another goes into detail about what makes a piece of music a sonata.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas are a library of masterworks spanning a lifetime of styles and artistic growth.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• Why did Serkin, a lifelong Mozartean, not record a single Mozart piano sonata during his four decades with Columbia?
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 25 Jul 2024