Word: sonata
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...last Symphony Concert of the sea-son in Sanders Theatre began with the Suite in D. by Bach. The Suite is much more elementary than the Sonata and was developed before the latter, being the first instrumental form in which several movements were combined into a Complete whole. It was completed in form long before ideas of key and relations, of harmony were fully realized. As a form for composition not many modern writers have used it, though a few prominent composers have been successful in it. This Suite has five movements, and, as is the rule...
...Kreutzer Sonata...
...great as the 9th, and the purely instrumental forms since Beethoven are as worthy of admiration as the operas and symphonic poems of Wagner, Berlioz and Lizst. Beethoven's style was illustrated by the great trioop. 97, played by Messrs. Lichtenberg, Jonas and Perabo, and by the Kreutzer Sonata by Lichtenberg and Perabo. The names of these artists mean simply that the perform nice was of the very highest merit...
Under them the polyphonic forms were less prominent, and more attention was given to sonata, symphony, etc. Haydn was the first to create classical works in these forms; the string quartette he carried to high perfection, and began the development of symphony. Mozart marks an advance upon Haydn. His symphonies are richer, and express greater intensity of feeling; his genius was more versatile and far reaching...
...have hinted that dreams may be valuable to the literary guild. Some great Frenchman used to solve his mathematical problems in his sleep. Tartini wrote the Devil's Sonata in the presence of his majesty, who appeared before him, as he slept. This must have been very soon after that feast in the lower world, reported by Lamb, where