Where does the word ‘sonata’ come from, and what does it mean? We take a deep dive to explore its meaning and evolution. However, some Baroque sonatas in were written for solo instruments without it, ...

Dvořák’s chamber music has received surprisingly little attention from Anglo-American music theorists of the modern era, despite a well-established place in the concert repertoire. Close readings of ...

David Owen Norris explains sonata form in a musical version of The Prodigal SonDavid Owen Norris explains sonata form in a musical version of The Prodigal Son ...

The attraction of music by Eric Ewazen (b. 1954) partially stems from the expressive interweaving of multiple nineteenth- and twentieth-century influences. Part I of this article documents how the ...

When teaching listening skills to my music appreciation students at Colorado Mountain College, I notice that sonata form, the pinnacle of the classical-era obsession with formal elements in music, is ...

Swann, one of the main characters in the novel, is a rich young man living in Paris who is connected with the highest Parisian aristocracy. At a musical soirée one evening he hears a sonata played by ...