toccatas
- plural of toccata.
Example Sentences
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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
Apropos, I intended, while asking you to send back the rondo, to send me also the six fugues by Handel and the toccatas and fugues by Eberlin.
From Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words by Kerst, Friedrich
