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Elaborate piano piece
Answer for the clue "Elaborate piano piece ", 7 letters:
toccata
Alternative clues for the word toccata
- Classical music piece
- Lively musical piece
- Cats love playing a bit of music
- Composition in the style of improvisation
- Piano composition
- A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style
- Bach's "__ and Fugue in D Minor"
- Baroque keyboard composition
Word definitions for toccata in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
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: Toccata ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context music English) A piece of music (usually for a keyboard instrument) designed to emphasise the dexterity of the performer.
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.