Crossword-Solution: SONATINA 8 letters, 31 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Laura stared hard, but could make nothing of it.--And meanwhile her companions were rising with sickly smiles, to seat themselves, red as turkey-cocks' combs, on the piano stool, where with cold, stiff fingers they stumbled through the movement of a sonata or sonatina.

The piano sonatina of the Funeral March, although by no means as insignificant, is nevertheless uncharacteristic in the resemblances it bears the music of Ravel.

Most of the music played by the band was merely rhythmical embroidery, chiefly in bugle figures, as helpful as a Clementi sonatina; but now and then there would break forth a magic elixir of tune that fairly plucked his feet up for him, put marrow in unwilling bones, and replaced the dreary doggedness of the heart with a great zest for progress, a stout martial fire, and a fierce _esprit de corps_; with patriotism indeed.

Her brain was full of haunting melodies, and it became her favourite recreation to weave these together into the form of waltz, polonaise, gavotte, or sonatina.

The first was a Signora Bianchi, under twenty years of age, who was characterised in the bills as the little _virtuosa forestiera_, and who sang three airs; the other was a Signora Barette, who played a _Pezzo Cantabile_ and a _Sonatina_ upon the violoncello.