different between sonata vs harmony

English

Etymology

From Italian sonata, from the feminine past participle of sonare (modern suonare), from Latin son?re (“to make sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??n??t?/

  Rhymes: -??t?

Noun

sonata (plural sonatas)

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.

Derived terms

• sonata form
• sonatina

See also

• cantata

Translations

Anagrams

• Aostan

Catalan

Etymology

From Italian sonata, attested from 1839.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /so?na.t?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /su?na.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /so?na.ta/

Noun

sonata f (plural sonates)

1. sonata

References

Further reading

• “sonata” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sonata” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sonata” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Esperanto

Adjective

sonata (accusative singular sonatan, plural sonataj, accusative plural sonatajn)

1. singular present passive participle of soni

Ido

Adjective

sonata

1. present passive participle of sonar

Italian

Alternative forms

• suonata

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so?na.ta/

Noun

sonata f (plural sonate)

1. sonata

Descendants

Participle

sonata

1. feminine singular of sonato

Anagrams

• ansato, sanato

Further reading

• sonata in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Japanese

Romanization

sonata

1. R?maji transcription of ???
2. R?maji transcription of ???

Polish

Etymology

From Italian sonata, from the feminine past participle of sonare (modern suonare), from Latin son?re (“to make sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??na.ta/

Noun

sonata f

1. (music) sonata

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) sonatowy

Further reading

• sonata in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• sonata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Italian sonata.

Noun

sonata f (plural sonatas)

1. (music) sonata (a musical composition for one or a few instruments)

Further reading

• “sonata” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Italian sonata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so?nata/, [so?na.t?a]

Noun

sonata f (plural sonatas)

1. sonata

Further reading

• “sonata” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

First attested in 1602. From Middle English armonye, from Old French harmonie/armonie, from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (harmonía, “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??m?ni/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??m?ni/
• Homophone: hominy (god-guard merger and weak vowel merger)

Noun

harmony (countable and uncountable, plural harmonies)

1. Agreement or accord.
   • December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweekk

     America's social harmony has depended at least to some degree on economic growth. It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead.

2. A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
3. (music) The academic study of chords.
4. (music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
5. (music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
6. A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.

   a harmony of the Gospels

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• harmony in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• harmony in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.