I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.
Quotes about sonata (12 Quotes)
Reber Johnson a violinist also got off another one, after I'd played over the Second Violin Sonata for himthat harmless piece. 'After stuff like that'he said'if you consider that music, and like it, how can you like Brahms or any good music' That is a very common attitude among almost all the well known lilies. They take it i.e., that attitude for granteda kind of self-evident axiom, a settled-for-life matter, ipso facto, admitting of no argument. The classical is good for all time, the modern is bad for all timeso if you like one, you can't like the other. Describing the reaction of a typical professional musician to his, and other twentieth-century, compositions. 'Lilies' was one of Ives' names for most of the concert goers of his era, who expected all music to be conventional and pretty.
The scariest picture in town is the Hyundai Sonata. It's the best value in the automotive market. It has everything that a Honda Accord and a Toyota Camry has, and it's built in Alabama.
My first view a panorama of brilliant deep blue ocean, shot with shades of green and gray and white was of atolls and clouds. Close to the window I could see that this Pacific scene in motion was rimmed by the great curved limb of the Earth. It had a thin halo of blue held close, and beyond, black space. I held my breath, but something was missing I felt strangely unfulfilled. Here was a tremendous visual spectacle, but viewed in silence. There was no grand musical accompaniment no triumphant, inspired sonata or symphony. Each one of us must write the music of this sphere for ourselves.
With the Beethoven sonata project, the emphasis was principally on the music, although Schnabel was considered its greatest exponent.
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.
Composing a concert is like composing a menu. . . . If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Ch.
My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.
The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
Today, Schubert's sonata is a vagabond piece that's been adopted by everyone.
People own the 'Moonlight' Sonata. Their children were conceived to it, and it's difficult to find anybody in Western society who doesn't have a personal relationship to that. You put that widely known a song on, and you start dancing to it, you are going to collide with people's own lives and own stories, and we are very interested in that.