The toccata of Galuppi left behind as its relics the melancholy of mundane pleasure and a sense of its transitory existence. |
In three movements, played without a break, the symphony begins deceptively, as a more-or-less neoclassic toccata. |
The words sennet and tucket were English manglings of the Italian terms sonata and toccata. |
He wrote a fine organ toccata for Simon Preston and a fine guitar concerto for John Williams. |
The first section is built on a machine-like ostinato in toccata form that travels from the violas to the first violins, and eventually to the entire orchestra. |
I wish you would send me Handel's six fugues and the toccata and fugues by Eberlin. |