toccata
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toccatas,
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toccate
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of toccata
1715–25; < Italian: “touched,” feminine past participle of toccare touch
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On TikTok, Lapwood does get the occasional negative comment — such as a poster complaining about the expressively fluctuating tempo in her performance of a Bach toccata.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
The knock-em-dead toccata that ends the concerto represents a festive winter solstice gathering of Guarani ethnic groups who cover vast swaths of South America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2019
“The BBC would come by and see what’s going on with the student body. I’d written a toccata in the style of Khachaturian, and they said, ‘Oh really?
From The New Yorker ● May 3, 2017
In this bright, fidgety orchestral version the music hovers somewhere between a perpetual-motion toccata and country-fiddle hoedown, though a pensive middle section alters the mood for a while.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2016
In the same year, 1830, he composed a toccata.
From The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
Anderson finds a stylistic sweet spot in this piece, which simultaneously hints at hoedowns, Vivaldi concertos, Bach toccatas and bebop.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2020
Worse, they lead you to hope for thrilling toccatas and fugues when all you get from Bill Frisell’s music is misty watercolor pop.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2018
In the Baroque perfection of his preludes, fugues, toccatas and fantasias, she said, one could find the order that is not always visible in the melee of human life.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2017
Alison Chitty's bullring-inspired designs, opening with video of a slow-churning black sea which also accompanies the orchestral interludes, called toccatas, retains its raw grandeur.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2013
"Well, and it was graceful of them—they'd break talk off and afford —She, to bite her mask's black velvet, he, to finger on his sword, While you sat and played toccatas, stately at the clavichord."
From Browning's Heroines by Maxwell Armfield
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