A musical composition structured similarly to a sonata but with distinct variations in form or instrumentation.
From Italian bissonata, combining bis (twice/again) with sonata (a musical form). This term emerged in Baroque music to describe pieces that repeated or reinterpreted sonata structures with modifications.
Baroque composers loved wordplay as much as they loved counterpoint—a 'bissonata' is basically them saying 'here's a sonata, but make it twice as interesting with our own twist!'
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