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, ...

Tom Service tells stories in sonata form. This word sonata originally meant simply a piece of music. But over the course of music history "sonata form" came to mean something very specific and laid ...

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 ...