sonata form

sonata form

n. Music

A form of a movement consisting of three sections, the exposition, development, and recapitulation, often followed by a coda.

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sonata form - a musical form having 3 sections -- exposition and development and recapitulation; characteristic of 1st movement of a sonata or symphony art form - (architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture)