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Music played staccato needing no introduction
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toccata
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Word definitions for toccata in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Toccata \Toc*ca"ta\, n. [It., fr. 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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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style
Usage examples of toccata.
Arietta by Antonio Salieri, then she played a Toccata by Leonardo Leo, a Gavotte by Rameau, a Gigue by Sebastian Bach.
He nodded to Viola (Hypolydian Duet) Toccata, whom he knew only slightly, and was introduced to Celesta and Clarino, both of the Psalm chord, who nodded gravely to him.
Drkh are about halfway up the aisle, Waterhouse slams into that old chestnut, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, except that he's transposing it into C-sharp minor as he goes along, because (according to a very elegant calculation that just came into his head as he was running up the aisle of the church) it ought to sound good that way when played in Mr.
Twenty slender digits stabbed at the keyboard in a swift toccata of statement, foresting the screen with symbols.