Toccata

Toccatas: the Toccata was a form of musical composition for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the modern fantasia or capriccio; clavichord: "a keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte {now called a piano}."

An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869

Following a sweetly introspective Menuet, her Toccata was a wild ride, full of bravura, colour and even some vivid grotesque elements.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed COLIN EATOCK 2011

The Toccata is a movement of energy and drive which displays the technique of the band.

Music, Technology and Education: Mustech.net J. Pisano 2010

This in turn is abandoned for some reasonable piano bluff, then back to what I shall call the Toccata theme before ending lamely.

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This in turn is abandoned for some reasonable piano bluff, then back to what I shall call the Toccata theme before ending lamely.

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Robert Fairchild, who danced well in "Toccata," and Ms. Taylor, who helped lead "Quasi Una Fantasia," were featured as the principal couple in Jerome Robbins's Prokofiev-inspired "Opus 19/The Dreamer," and both took to the 1979 work as if it were the freshest and most inspiring of dances.

In Lincoln Kirstein's Shadow 2009

Mr. Bubenícek's 20-minute "Toccata," for seven featured dancers led by the uncommanding Abi Stafford, uses spare, intermittent music for two pianos, viola and cello by the choreographer's twin brother, Otto.

In Lincoln Kirstein's Shadow 2009

[166: 1] The "Toccata" which awakens these reflections in the poet is by

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

On the balcony, late in the evening, while the others were listening indoors to the low modulations of a young composer who had embroidered his fancies on Browning's "Toccata," Susy found her chance.

The Glimpses of the Moon 1922

"Toccata"; and before many bars were over, our idealist crept softly into the room, with an air of apologetic forgiveness.

At Large Arthur Christopher Benson 1893