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toccata

[ tuh-kah-tuh; Italian tawk-kah-tah ]

noun

Music.
plural toccatas, toccate
  1. a composition in the style of an improvisation, for the piano, organ, or other keyboard instrument, intended to exhibit the player's technique.


toccata

/ əˈɑːə /

noun

  1. a rapid keyboard composition for organ, harpsichord, etc, dating from the baroque period, usually in a rhythmically free style
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of toccata1

1715–25; < Italian: “touched,” feminine past participle of toccare touch
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of toccata1

C18: from Italian, literally: touched, from toccare to play (an instrument), touch
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In the middle of one conversation, the architect suddenly popped out of his chair, walked over to a Steinway and started to play a Bach toccata.

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On TikTok, Lapwood does get the occasional negative comment — such as a poster complaining about the expressively fluctuating tempo in her performance of a Bach toccata.

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Here it was clear in its hovering veils of sound, its quietly lyrical serenity and its toccata flurries, before a steady, triumphal ending.

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Opening the recording with a Frescobaldi toccata, Rondeau places two more — the first imposingly grand, the second lush and lonely, a child playing in an empty castle — at its core.

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Anderson finds a stylistic sweet spot in this piece, which simultaneously hints at hoedowns, Vivaldi concertos, Bach toccatas and bebop.

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