different between sonata vs prelude

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

Alternative forms

• prælude (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French prélude (“singing to test a musical instrument”), from Medieval Latin preludium, from Latin prael?dere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??l(j)u?d/, /?p?e?l(j)u?d/, /?p?i?lu?d/

Noun

prelude (plural preludes)

1. An introductory or preliminary performance or event.

   Synonym: preface

2. (music) A short, free-form piece of music, originally one serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece; later, starting with the Romantic period, generally a stand-alone piece. [from 1650s]

   Synonyms: intrada, overture

3. (programming) A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program.
   • 2018, Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, The Rust Programming Language, No Starch Press (?ISBN), page 232:

     In the same way that Rust has a general prelude that brings certain types and functions into scope automatically, the std::io module has its own prelude of common types and functions you'll need when working with I/O.

4. (figuratively) A forerunner to anything.

Synonyms

• forestory

Translations

Verb

prelude (third-person singular simple present preludes, present participle preluding, simple past and past participle preluded)

1. To introduce something, as a prelude.
2. To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.
   • 1829, Francis Jeffrey, "Heman's Poems", in The Edinburgh Review October 1829

     We are preluding too largely, and must come at once to the point.

References

Italian

Verb

prelude

1. third-person singular present indicative of preludere

Anagrams

• puledre