Toccata definitions

Toccata

1) Bach composition 2) Bach piece 3) Bach work 4) Baroque number 5) Composition 6) Composition for harpsichord 7) Composition in C major 8) Elaborate piano piece 9) Flashy keyboard composition 10) Fugue preceder, often 11) Harpsichord melody 12) Improvisational composition 13) Improvisational piece
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Toccata

1) Music
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Toccata

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 the performer`s fingers. Less frequently, the nam......
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Toccata

[Khachaturian] The Toccata in E-flat minor is a piece for solo piano written in 1932 by Aram Khachaturian. It is a favorite of piano students, and has been recorded many times. Khachaturian wrote this work as the first movement of a three-movement suite for piano: He wrote the suite in 1932 while studying at the Moscow Conservatory under Ni...
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Toccata

[Prokofieff] Cover of the Robert Rich and B.Lustmord album Stalker, 1995. ...
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Toccata

[Schumann] The Toccata in C major, Op. 7 by Robert Schumann, was completed in 1836. The piece is in sonata-allegro form. The piece is exceptionally difficult, and Schumann believed it was the `hardest piece ever written`. A series of chords introduce the main theme, which is believed the passage that Schumann injured his hands trying to mas...
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Toccata

• (n.) An old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude, fantasia, or capriccio.
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toccata

musical form for keyboard instruments, written in a free style that is characterized by full chords, rapid runs, high harmonies, and other virtuoso ... [1 related articles]
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Toccata

Toc·ca'ta noun [ Italian , from toccare to touch. See Touch .] (Mus.) An old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude , fantasia , or capriccio .
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Toccata

Toccata is a cultivated variety of potato.
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Toccata

Toccata is an old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude, fantasia, or capriccio.
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toccata

[n] - 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

a virtuoso composition, generally for organ or harpsichord, in a free and rhapsodic style. In the Baroque period, it often was the introduction to a fugue.
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toccata

noun 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

In music, a composition for keyboard instruments, such as the organ, in which the performer's finger technique is emphasized. This is often done by including passages using features such as arpeggios and elaborate fast runs
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toccata

a piece for keyboard intended to display virtuosity.
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toccata

(Latin meaning
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