Sonata A La Española
''Sonata a la Española'' is a sonata for solo guitar composed in 1969 by the Spain, Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo. The piece has three movement (music), movements. The first of these, ''allegro assai'', introduces a steady tread against music with a nasal-like sound. The second, ''adagio'', has a theme centered on the lower strings of the guitar. The final, ''allegro moderato'', is a ''Bolero (Spanish dance) , bolero'' mixed with the Spanish music. Movements *1. Allegro assai *2. Adagio *3. Tempo de bolero See also

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Sonata
Sonata (; Italian: , pl. ''sonate''; from Latin and Italian: ''sonare'' rchaic Italian; replaced in the modern language by ''suonare'' "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece ''played'' as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian ''cantare'', "to sing"), a piece ''sung''. The term evolved through the history of music, designating a variety of forms until the Classical era, when it took on increasing importance. Sonata is a vague term, with varying meanings depending on the context and time period. By the early 19th century, it came to represent a principle of composing large-scale works. It was applied to most instrumental genres and regarded—alongside the fugue—as one of two fundamental methods of organizing, interpreting and analyzing concert music. Though the musical style of sonatas has changed since the Classical era, most 20th- and 21st-century sonatas still maintain the same structure. The term sonatina, pl. ''sonatine'', the diminutive form of sonata, is of ...
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