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What is a sonata?

What is a sonata? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) A musical composition for one or a few instruments, one of which is frequently a piano, in three or four movements that vary in key and tempo
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The result is that this sonata sounds less like juvenilia than it usually does.
Bridging the Italian concerto grosso style and the sonata form recently developed by Hadyn and J.C. Bach, they do Tyneside proud indeed.
The photographer's composition is like music, achieving balances and contrasts worthy of the sonata poised on the music stand.
The sonata form, and its gripping epic of migration from the tonic to the dominant and then back again, is an archetype of this.
The artists of the old school, in particular the sonata playing of Glenn Gould and Yehudi Menuhin.
Germans never applaud between the movements of a sonata, or before the end of an act at the opera.

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