Charles Rosen says of sonata form: "[It] is not a definite form like a minuet, a da capo aria, or a French overture; it is, like the fugue, a way of writing, a feeling for proportion, direction, and texture rather than a pattern."
- ISBN10 0393012034
- ISBN13 9780393012033
- Publish Date April 1980
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 344
- Language English