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| | Music 104| Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | It has one to seven or more sections or movements, contrasting in meter, tempo, and texture, and is written for one or more melody instruments, normally of the violin family, and basso continuo. |
 | | Though called simply sonata in most 17th-century publications, suggesting use outside the church as well, it is identifiable by a serious style, manifest in fugal writing, by the relative scarcity of the dance movements characteristic of the sonata da camera... |
 | | There is version in fast triple meter, called Italian, and a version in slower, more ornate triple meter, called French. |
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