An Attractive Afternoon with the A.W. C. Music Department At the meeting of the Music Department of the. American Woman's Club on Thursday afternoon at the Colton Cafe, Miss Frances Adams presented the subject of the Development of the Sonata, assisted by Mr. Harry Ore, who illustrated four phases of its development out of the wide range of time it represented. The subject was much too inclusive for one afternoon and could only be sketchily presented. Johanne Kuhnau was the real creator of the sonata form, which constituted a revolution in music. The plan of the sonata was to combine several movements in such a way that, when completed, they would e press all kinds of emotion—intellectual, spiritual, and physical. The movements might vary in arrangement and number, but one thing must necessarily be true throughout and that was that one movement should contain two con-tresting themes and be a complete unit in itself. This has been true throughout the history of the sonata. Other movements which are added are generally a slow, soft, and deeper movement, often called the menuer, the light, joyous, usually shorter movement, called the scherzo, and the final brilliant movement full of hilarity and spectacular opportunity for the interpreter, which may be called a rondo.
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