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Topic: MUSIC

Date: 1600-1700
Language: Italian
Origin: sonare 'to sound', from Latin

sonata

 noun
     
so‧na‧ta [countable]
APM a piece of music with three or four parts that is written for a piano, or for a piano and another instrument:
a piano sonata
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