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toc·ca·ta

 (tə-kä′tə)
n.
A virtuoso composition, usually for the organ or another keyboard instrument, in free style with brilliant passagework.

[Italian, from feminine past participle of toccare, to touch, from Vulgar Latin *toccāre.]
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toccata

(təˈkɑːtə)
n
(Classical Music) a rapid keyboard composition for organ, harpsichord, etc, dating from the baroque period, usually in a rhythmically free style
[C18: from Italian, literally: touched, from toccare to play (an instrument), touch]
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toc•ca•ta

(təˈkɑ tə)

n. pl. -tas, -te (-ti, -teɪ)
a composition in the style of an improvisation, for the piano, organ, or other keyboard instrument, intended to exhibit the player's technique.
[1715–25; < Italian, n. use of feminine past participle of toccare to touch]
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toccata

Keyboard work to display virtuosity.
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Noun1.toccata - a baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style
musical composition, opus, piece of music, composition, piece - a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements"
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[təˈkɑːtə] Ntocata f
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toccata

nToccata f
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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:
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(See facebook.com/Sauerl%C3%A4nder-Horntage-121243581555624/.) In November, the horns of the Luxembourg orchestra (Nagy, Turner, Halsdorf, Mascher, Marc Bouchard, and Mark Olson) presented a concert in the Luxembourg Philharmonie as part of the Les Amis de l'OPL series that included the Bach Toccata and Fugue BWV 565 (arr.
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It analyzes academic pieces like the Missa Brevis, Das Lied von der Liebe, and the Sonata for clarinet and piano, as well as jazz works like Blue Brazil, Neurasia, and Cearta, chamber jazz works like Toccata for piano and jazz septet, and symphonic jazz pieces, including the Double Concerto for piano, tenor saxophone, symphonic orchestra and big band.
This year's program includes Mozart's Overture to Don Giovanni as arranged for six pianists by Carl Czerny; Duets for two keyboards by Carl Philippe Emanuel Bach; Smetana's Sonata in One Movement for eight hands; an arrangement of Borodin's Polovetsian Dances; Rachmaninoff's Vocalise; Philip Glass' Four Movements for Two Pianos; Saint-Saens' Dance Macabre; Gillock's Champagne Toccata for four pianists; Igor Rogalyov's March and Mazurka from Book of Marches and Dances; Debussy's Danse Profane; Bolcom's The Serpent's Kiss; a Piazzolla tango; jazz selections; and an arrangement by Kallin Johnson of Beatles tunes for seven pianists.