toccata

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The C-sharp Minor is a running toccata, anxious, even somber.

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  1. noun A virtuoso composition, usually for the organ or another keyboard instrument, in free style with brilliant passagework.

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  • At least to these ears, at times there's a trace of Bach in these tunes, toccata and fugue - like journeys on the keys, enveloped in traditions that were surely far removed from 17th century Europe!
  • A toccata resounded from the organ embedded in polychromatic sculpted wood, as priest Bernard Eckert described the stained glass windows as "comic books" of their time. —  The Bellingham Herald: Sports News
  • Adagio -- or intermezzo -- of melancholy beauty; and a wisp of a finale (toccata) that whips by us like the last movement of Chopin's B-flat Minor Sonata, but without the eerie gloom. —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • Anime allows Katz his true forte as an architect in toccata form, the arbiter of demonic restraints and emotional tugs of war. —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • The C-sharp Minor is a running toccata, anxious, even somber. —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
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  1. Italian, from feminine past participle of toccare, to touch, from Vulgar Latin *toccāre.

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  1. from Italian toccata, past participle feminine of toccare =Spanish Portuguese tocar =F. toucher, touch: see touch.
 

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