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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"
Translations
toccata [təˈkɑːtə] N → tocata f
toccata
n → Toccata f


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Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha,' another special poem on music, is unparalleled for ingenuity of technical interpretation: 'A Toccata of Galuppi's' is as rare a rendering as can anywhere be found of the impressions and sensations caused by a musical piece; but 'Abt Vogler' is a very glimpse into the heaven where music is born.
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"'While you sat and played toccatas stately, at the clavichord,"' Sophie hummed, and, head on one; side, nodded to where the perfect mirror should hang:
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