toccata

IPA: tˈɑkˈɑtʌ

(music) A piece of music (usually for a keyboard instrument) designed to emphasise the dexterity of the performer.

Examples of "toccata" in Sentences

The final movement is a glittering toccata.
I really don't like the Toccata and Fugue example.
This variation is another two part virtuosic toccata.
Busoni's transcription of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
He was one of the earliest developers of the keyboard toccata.
The toccata is thought to be written after 1714, and the fugue before 1731.
In such cases the toccata is used in place of the usually more stable prelude.
And toccata was probably also a improvised form which became a composition form later.
September 28, 2009 at 10:34 am wud yu laik a nys glas uv toccata wif teh katchatorry an?
Like playing a complicated piano toccata, she thought, every note held, then released just so.
(Soundbite of music) HANSEN: Rolf Lislevand playing a toccata by Alessandro Picinnini on the theorbo here in Studio 4A.
So hold the holy water and stifle the Mephistophelian pipe-organ toccata: Nestlé is using its corporate clout for good, not...evil.
Elliott Carter's rippling toccata "Catenaires," composed in 2006 when he was in his late 90s he recently celebrated his 102nd birthday, formed a pleasing diptych with the Ligeti and had in pianist Audrey Andrist a performer just as technically daring.
A scrunchy havoc of whip, sleigh bells, saxophones, bass guitar, as well as the full forces of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Nibelung note of a household hammer for good measure, bashed, danced and whirled through this 15-minute non-stop toccata.