Definitions for toccata

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toccata toc·ca·ta

Spelling: [tuh-kah-tuh; Italian tawk- Toccata is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in toccata (aaccott).

Definitions for toccata

noun

1. a composition in the style of an improvisation, for the piano, organ, or other keyboard instrument, intended to exhibit the player's technique.

Origin of toccata

1715-25; Italian: “touched,” feminine past participle of toccare touch

Examples for toccata

In the Bachgesellschaft edition the toccata is called fantasia.

The toccata contains three movements—allegro moderato, allegro, adagio.

The toccata is in two movements—allegro moderato and adagio.

I wish you would send me Handel's six fugues and the toccata and fugues by Eberlin.

The toccata of Galuppi left behind as its relics the melancholy of mundane pleasure and a sense of its transitory existence.

The compass of the pedals in this toccata shows that it must have been written for the organ in the Lutheran Church at Cthen.

But the music was not all to the tune of “A toccata of Galuppi's.”

I have no doubt that the toccata by Chaminade, which I do not know, is written on similar lines.

Mr. Moulton seemed interested about the reading, and I read him the 'toccata' after dinner, and other poems.

None of their definitions seems to apply to the toccata by Chaminade.