(n.) An extended composition for one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements; as, Beethoven's sonatas for the piano, for the violin and piano, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
(2) From Excession (1996) to The Hydrogen Sonata (2012), he produced a sequence of seven science-fiction novels, all but one of which, The Algebraist (2004), belonged to the Culture series.
(3) This picture of a woman who read newspapers, who was interested in the transport revolution and the markets, who could use a gun and make bread and who may even have been able to play the Appassionata Sonata, needs to be given its proper place.
(4) I arrived back at Baker Street to find Holmes playing a mournful Webern sonata on the violin and for a moment I feared he had succumbed once more to his penchant for cocaine.
(5) The Hyundai Sonata recently became the first car to roll off the production line with Android Auto, allowing drivers to connect to their smartphones and pull Google Maps and other Google apps directly on to their dashboards.
(6) The first half is a selection of pieces from the Années de Pèlerinage , while the second is devoted to the monumental B Minor Sonata.
(7) His next project may or may not be a cello sonata called Get Lucky.
(8) Sight-reading is analyzed as a problem in pattern recognition: a movement from a sonata by Handel is used to illustrate the principle of scanning for familiar patterns.
(9) Just before filing this piece, I played my dad's old LP of Ogdon and Lucas performing Mozart's sonata for two pianos in D major.
(10) It all started in 1993 with an article in Nature by Francis Rauscher and colleagues showing that college students who listened to a Mozart sonata for 10 minutes showed improvements in spatial tasks – though this improvement lasted only for 10 to 15 minutes.
(11) In Experiment 3, listeners rated probe tones following an excerpt from Milhaud's Sonata No.
(12) He's also received near universal acclaim for his Seven Sonatas, inspired by the Italian composer Scarlatti, which will headline ABT's London season at Sadler's Wells next month.
(13) He loved Beethoven's great sonata – but he also hated it.
(14) We all know that content is king: if you want, say, Test Match Special or the latest grime, you will put up with mediocre sound quality rather than listen to Biber's Rosary Sonatas in stunning stereo, or (in my case) the reverse.
(15) The timing patterns of 19 complete performances of the third movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata op.
(16) Listening on the radio to the stormy grandeur of Beethoven's Appassionata piano sonata the other day, I thought, as some of us still do occasionally, about Lenin.
(17) Lubranicki had travelled from New Jersey in a champagne-colored Hyundai Sonata.
(18) Their titles – St Michael Sonata, Prolation, O Magnum Mysterium – give a clue to the source of this constructivist rigour: the great civilisation of medieval and Renaissance Europe.
(19) Lonely Di hangs out in Kensington Palace, heating up baked beans for one, playing the Moonlight Sonata and hurling the remote control at the television when Prince Charles is on.
(20) His Sonata for Oboe and Clarinet, inspired by a Kurt Schwitters poem, was heard at the Aeolian Hall in London, while his Sonatina for Piano had been performed in New York.
Trio
Definition:
(n.) Three, considered collectively; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united.
(n.) A composition for three parts or three instruments.
(n.) The secondary, or episodical, movement of a minuet or scherzo, as in a sonata or symphony, or of a march, or of various dance forms; -- not limited to three parts or instruments.
Example Sentences:
(1) Additional allotype information is presented for five previously reported South American tribes (Cayapo, Piaroa, Trio, Xavante and Yanomama).
(2) 'Devastated' Peter Greste calls on Egypt's president to pardon trio Read more “It’s ironic that the conviction was for tarnishing Egypt’s reputation when ... this [case] is what’s tarnished Egypt’s image,” Clooney told BBC News.
(3) Social and sexual behaviors were analyzed as a function of trio type (sibling or nonsibling) and fate (survivor or nonsurvivor) across 12-h time blocks.
(4) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
(5) The trio were arrested after a brief performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour of a song calling for the Virgin Mary to "chase Putin out".
(6) We can’t have confidence in a plan that plays fast and loose with global warming and fails to accelerate Europe’s shift to 100% renewable energy.” Wendel Trio, the director of Climate Action Network-Europe, said: “Like all other countries, the EU needs to ensure its policies are coherent with what was agreed in Paris, and needs to substantially increase its targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050.
(7) The report condemns the trio for giving evidence to the committee last month that was "misleading, possibly deliberately".
(8) Deacetylation of the resulting disaccharide derivative, followed by benzylidenation, and condensation with 2,3,4-trio-O-acetyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl trichloroacetimidate (10) afforded ethyl 4-O-[3-O-allyl-4,6-O-benzylidene-2-O-(2,3,4-trio-O-acetyl- alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-beta-D-galactopyranosyl]-2,3-di-O-benzyl-1-thio - alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside (11).
(9) Dryhurst said the trio were walking in single file out of the arena when the blast struck, breaking Booth’s jaw and her daughter’s legs.
(10) The trio of Glaswegian builders buying me drinks comprised half the audience.
(11) The club would like to thank the trio for their efforts and a further statement will be made in due course.” Luzon’s exit is the fourth managerial change since the Belgian businessman Roland Duchatelet took over the south London club in January 2014.
(12) Croatia will have one of the most creative central midfield trios in the tournament, with Barcelona’s Ivan Rakitic joined by Real Madrid’s Luka Modric and Mateo Kovacic.
(13) So we’ve decided to call it The Grand Tour .” Ex-Top Gear trio Clarkson, Hammond and May to launch DriveTribe website Read more May said he was underwhelmed by the name.
(14) There are strong indications that Episode VII will centre on the key trio of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo, played by original stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford.
(15) They sound like a trio of preppy clothing companies, but in fact they are some of the most powerful players in world finance.
(16) A bill that would allow Congress to review the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran has fallen victim to presidential politics, as a trio of Republican senators seeking the White House have seized on the debate as a messaging opportunity for their foreign policy agendas.
(17) The trio reached an out-of-court settlement with WPP last week and issued a carefully worded public apology over the matter.
(18) The trio have filed appeals, but with no new court date set, Omara says she and Fahmy can no longer wait.
(19) The trio at the top – Lord Stevenson, the bank's chairman "from its birth to its death" and successive chief executives Sir James Crosby and Andy Hornby – were roundly blamed for the colossal failures that led to its collapse.
(20) The n-dimensional duo-trio method model is given in this paper and previous work on the triangular method is reviewed briefly.