a baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style
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toccata::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | composition, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music |
Examples of toccata
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In such cases the toccata is used in place of the usually more stable prelude.
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The opera begins with a martial-sounding toccata for trumpets which is repeated twice.
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Bach is also known for his organ fugues, which are usually preceded by a prelude or toccata.
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The toccata from L'Orfeo, composed by Claudio Monteverdi in 1807.
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Beginning with a toccata for 12 car horns, the music constantly shifts its style and is never dull.
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Described by Messiaen as the development of these themes the work ends with a joyful and vigorous toccata.
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Each suite is preceded by a toccata, and the book closes with two paired passamezzos and saltarellos.
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This variation is another two-part virtuosic toccata.
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The finale, a toccata, doesn't evolve.
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- A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style
- Toccata (from Italian toccare, "to touch") is a virtuoso piece of music typically for a keyboard or plucked string instrument featuring fast-moving, lightly fingered or otherwise virtuosic passages or sections, with or without imitative or fugal interludes, generally emphasizing the dexterity of ...
- Toccata (film) is a 1969 Dutch film directed by Herman van der Horst.
- The Toccata in D Minor, Op. 11 is a piece for solo piano, written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1912 and debuted by the composer on December 10, 1916 in Petrograd. It is a further development of the toccata form, which has been used by composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Robert Schumann. ...
- Toccata is the second track from Emerson, Lake, & Palmer's 1973 album Brain Salad Surgery. It is an arrangement of the 4th Movement of Alberto Ginastera's Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 28 (1961).
- A piece of music (usually for a keyboard instrument) designed to emphasise the dexterity of the performer
- A Baroque instrumental piece displaying of the performer's gift as a virtuoso.
- A piece for keyboard, usually technically demanding, intended as a display for virtuosity.
- A virtuoso work characterized by brilliant passagework, and often perpetual motion.
