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Sonata form is the form of music that many composers of the classical period used to base their music around when composing. A sonata can consist of three to four movements. The sonata form consists of three sections, the exposition, development and the recapitulation or ABA. The exposition, the section that cis played in the tonic key.. The development, the section further expands on the exposition but usually this is played contrasting to the first section. The recapitulation, the final section of a sonata. This section goes to back to the tonic key and generally sounds like the exposition but sometimes with some variation to the way it is played.

Here is a sonata written by Beethoven. media type="custom" key="25477602"