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toccata
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toc·ca·ta  (t-kät)
n.
A virtuoso composition, usually for the organ or another keyboard instrument, in free style with brilliant passagework.
[Italian, from feminine past participle of toccare, to touch, from Vulgar Latin *toccre.]
toccata [təˈkɑːtə]
n
(Music / Classical Music) a rapid keyboard composition for organ, harpsichord, etc., dating from the baroque period, usually in a rhythmically free style
[from Italian, literally: touched, from toccare to play (an instrument), touch]
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Noun1.toccata - a baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style
musical composition, opus, piece of music, composition, piece - a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements"
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toccata [təˈkɑːtə] N → tocata f
toccata
n → Toccata f
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Bedrich Smetana [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sny [Dreams], Album Leaves (B major, B flat minor, Toccatinas in B major, G major, G minor, E flat minor, B flat minor), Andante in E flat major, Polkas (E major, G minor, A major, F minor), Wedding Scenes Jitka Cechova--piano.
Bedrich Smetana by Nemec, Veroslav / Czech Music
Apart from Bach's evergreen Toccata and Fugue in D Minor you'll get Noel Rawsthorne's Dance Suite, Pietro Yon's Toccatina for the Flutes and LAon Boellmann's Suite Gothique The Yon work is a humoresque and rather too lightweight for my tastes, though immensely popular and often played as an encore, and its Italian composer (and one-time organist at St Peter's, Vatican) is certainly no slouch.
culture VULTURE by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
The programme includes Buxtehude's Prelude & Fugue in G minor; the Sei gregsset Chorale & Variations by Bach; the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria and the Pietro Yon Toccatina.
Polished play-offs by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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