toccata in English

noun
1
a musical composition for a keyboard instrument designed to exhibit the performer's touch and technique.
Most people will agree that J S Bach composed the greatest keyboard toccatas precisely because he, more than any composer, was master of maximal emotional intensity, countered by acute intellectual lucidity.

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1. What'd fit after that great Toccata?

2. I've finished my Toccata but I have no fugue .

3. What can I fit? What'd fit after that great Toccata?

4. I sat down at the piano and launched into Bach's Toccata in C major.

5. Stravinsky, to whom Lipatti showed his Toccata , could only tell him to "continue in the same direction."

6. The work is in one movement, structured in five sections: Allegro alla toccata Presto precipitando Adagio lusingando Vivace Con moto giusto The first section, like a toccata, is based on two themes, one of them the "Dies irae".

7. The piece is in the form of a theme and 11 variations: Theme Variation I, Recitative Variation II, Romance Variation III, March Variation IV, Rubato Variation V, Chorale Variation VI, Nocturne Variation VII, Badinerie Variation VIII, Ritmico Variation IXa, Toccata I Variation IXb, Toccata II Variation X, Adagio Variation XI, Tarantella.

8. Both represent two diverse aspects of Italian influence: the motoric rhythms and sequential passagework of the Toccata, and the traditional alla breve counterpoint of the Fugue, with its chromaticism, harmonic suspensions, and uninterrupted succession of subjects and answers.

9. VIl - a toccata for the whole ensemble in regular semiquavers - this is pulled about by sudden accelerandi and ritardandi (as if the music were being stretched and compressed like an elastic band) before a final accelerando catapults the music into the briefest section in the work.