Talk:Violin sonata

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Definition of a violin sonata[edit]

A new user has suggested that violin sonatas (along with Cello sonatas etc.) were essentially piano pieces with the violin role as a secondary accompaniment. I'm unfamiliar with this historical explanation of the violin sonata and it's rather counter intuitive for me judging by the history of early baroque sonatas where the melody was played solely by the violin with the harpsichord (usually with bass instrument) playing the basso continuo. This theory also conflicts with the arrangement of many slow movements of classical violin sonatas where the violin plays a clear solo role with chordal like acompianament by the piano. Any thoughts on this? --Shabidoo | Talk 23:24, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Original research?[edit]

The text below appears to be original research. Without proper citation details the "reference" is meaningless. It is being parked here until the matter can be resolved. Graham1973 (talk) 13:27, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Brahms, Franck, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev and Shostakovich amongst other later composers added to the repertoire pushing the form to its limits, or writing rules of their own. (Reference: "A Brief Analysis of Debussy's Violin Sonata, Brahms' Violin Sonata, Op. 78, and Shostakovich's Eighth String Quartet, Op. 110"

I do not think it can be classed as "OR", since it is fairly obviously a reference to this dissertation. It is not a balanced statement, though it is obviously true that many, many later composers wrote works they called "sonata", which broke at least one of the "rules". But then, I do not think that in a blind test the world's greatest musical expert could listen to a new piece and give a definitive statement of whether or not it was a "sonata". Imaginatorium (talk) 16:21, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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