toccata
- n a baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style
- From the automobile of Composer Roy Harris, 31, were stolen last week in Manhattan a new symphony and a toccata.
- Each of the scenes in the opera's four acts is organized according to a musical genre: chaconne, toccata, ricercaranother explicit resemblance to Wozzeck.
- Tucket most probably stems from the Italian toccata (meaning a touch), and in all likelihood originally signified a drum sound.