sonatina
Americannoun
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sonatinas,
plural
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sonatine
plural
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of sonatina
1715–25; < Italian, diminutive of sonata
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He wrote his first published work, a sonatina for piano, in 1943.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2017
At eight he was good enough to master a Clementi sonatina in one day.
From Time Magazine Archive
My sonatina needs work, so I play it again and again, going over the tricky left hand fingering of that one tough passage a zillion times.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
“Now let me hear your sonatina once more. The first movement, please.”
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
And I’m really bummed I didn’t get to play my sonatina.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
The second disc features earlier works of a very different aesthetic, including two neo-Classical sonatinas and a partita that evokes Shostakovich.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2014
I can tinkle away on the piano much better now already; not long ago I played a Haydn and a Mozart sonata and some sonatinas.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the prim sonatinas that had gone before, Thalberg's florid ornaments had a shameless sound.
From The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson
All right, Miss Holt!" replied Sylvia, "I'll do my best, but I wish we could lose old Clementi; I do so hate the sonatinas.
From The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story by Angela Brazil
The second has the more merit, but both, like most sonatinas, are too trivial of psychology and too formal even to be recommended for children's exercises.
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