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Instrumental music's three-act drama, where keys feud, reconcile, and go home different.
means A multi-movement work for one or few instruments, built on the tension-and-resolution architecture of sonata form.
from From Italian suonare, to sound — music that is played, not sung, deliberately opposed to the sung cantata.
Cantata's rivalSonata is sounded; cantata is sung
Three-part spineExposition, development, recapitulation drive the form
Beethoven's labWrote 32 piano sonatas pushing the form's limits