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- noun Plural form of
toccata .
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Examples
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Stravinsky's spiky, neoclassical score, in which a harpsichord clatters its mini-toccatas in the style of baroque continuo, consists of many cool, brittle refrains, with each aria laced "into a tight corset" as the composer put it.
The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010
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You can detect hymn-like solemnity, minimalist toccatas and formalist fugues, tonality and atonality, musical self-reference, as well as nods towards folk and klezmer.
Shostakovich: The Preludes and Fugues/ Alexander Melnikov (piano) 2010
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The toccatas of Buxtehude and his predecessors show how an effective musical scheme may be suggested by running over the keyboard of an organ as if to try (_toccare_) the touch, then bursting out into sustained and full harmony, and at last settling down to a fugue.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Besides these there are the three great independent toccatas and the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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"'While you sat and played toccatas stately, at the clavichord,"'Sophie hummed, and, head on one; side, nodded to where the perfect mirror should hang:
Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900
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It is known that Luzzasco Luzzaschi, pupil of Cyprian di Rore, master of Frescobaldi, and composer of madrigals and organ toccatas, wrote the chorals in madrigal style for
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Don't forget the toccatas, fantasias, and capriccios.
Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890
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Pour into each breast as much as it will hold of the new strong wine of love: and, for fear they should take cold by exposure, cover them quickly up with a quantity of obscure classical quotations, a few familiar allusions to an unknown period of history, and a half-destroyed fresco by an early master, varied every now and then with a reference to the fugues or toccatas of
Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book 1886
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He played with clean articulation, warmth and power in both toccatas, his improvisatory flair illuminating their grandeur and dramatic scope.
NYT > Home Page By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER 2011
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To follow the toccatas, Gregoire will perform a piece by Charles Marie Widor, a composer popular with organists and audiences alike.
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