num_pages: 415
description: Charles Rosen says of sonata form#58; "[It] is not a definite form like a minuet, a da capo aria, or a French overture; it is, like the fugue, a way of writing, a feeling for proportion, direction, and texture rather than a pattern."
language: English
title: Sonata Forms
titlecomplete: Sonata Forms
genres: Nonfiction, Classical Music, Music, Reference
ratings_count: 157
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company