Definitions for toccatas

toccatas toc·ca·ta

Spelling: [tuh-kah-tuh; Italian tawk- Toccatas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 137 anagrams from letters in toccatas (aaccostt).

Definitions for toccatas

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 toccatas

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

Examples for toccatas

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

In the Bachgesellschaft edition the toccata is called fantasia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Word Value for toccatas
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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