[2] During the 17th century, church services were increasingly accompanied by music for ensembles rather than solo organ, with canzonas and sonatas regularly substituted for the Proper during Mass and Vespers.
The term sonata da chiesa was originally used in its literal meaning of "church music", but later came to be used figuratively to contrast this genre of composition with the sonata da camera, which literally meant "chamber music", but generally comprised a suite of dances.
3 (1689) each consist of 12 trio sonatas with alternating slow-fast-slow-fast movements (the first 8 of the Twelve concerti grossi, Op.
[5] By the mid-18th century, however, this style of music was increasingly out of date, although Joseph Haydn, for example, did compose a few early symphonies that followed the largo–allegro–minuet–allegro pattern.
[6] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart also composed 17 works that are called "church sonatas", but these consisted of but a single movement for organ and strings to be played between the Epistle and the Gospel of the Mass.