Sonatas

thumb|upright=1.3|Ludwig van Beethoven's manuscript sketch for Piano Sonata No. 28, Movement IV Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr und mit Entschlossenheit (Allegro), in his own handwriting. The piece was completed in 1816.

A sonatina (French: “sonatine”, German: “Sonatine") is a small sonata. As a musical term, sonatina has no single strict definition; it is rather a title applied by the composer to a piece that is in basic sonata form, but is shorter and lighter in character, or technically more elementary, than a typical sonata. The term has been in use at least since the late baroque; there is a one-page, one-movement harpsichord piece by Handel called "Sonatina". It is most often applied to solo keyboard works, but a number of composers have written sonatinas for violin and piano (see list under violin sonat

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instrumental composition dating from the Baroque period

introductory thematic material of a musical composition

term used to describe a group of instrumental pieces set into three or four different movements

musical piece written by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók in 1937

section of a movement written in sonata form

harpsichord sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti