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toccata

/tuh-kah-tuh; Italian tawk-kah-tah/US // təˈkɑ tə; Italian tɔkˈkɑ tɑ //UK // (təˈkɑːtə) //

感动,感动的,触动了,触动

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural toc·ca·tas, toc·ca·te [tuh-kah-tee; Italian tawk-kah-te]. /təˈkɑ ti; Italian tɔkˈkɑ tɛ/. Music.

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

Examples

  • Then it grows in strength, as if to compete with the Bach Toccata.

  • But in Bach's hands the toccata becomes one of the noblest and most plastic of forms.

  • Marise fumbled among the music on the piano and pulled out what they were working on, the Toccata in D minor.

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

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