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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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Universalium. 2010.
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Universalium. 2010.
Epistle Sonata — An instrumental composition of a single sonataform movement played at a Roman Catholic mass after the intonation of the Epistle, the portion of one of St. Paul’s letters preceding the Gospel reading. The Epistle sonata therefore occupied the… … Historical dictionary of sacred music