But in Bach's hands the toccata becomes one of the noblest and most plastic of forms. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
And toccata was probably also a improvised form which became a composition form later. From Wordnik.com. [Rolf Lislevand, Improvising with 'Nuove Musiche'] Reference
September 28, 2009 at 10:34 am wud yu laik a nys glas uv toccata wif teh katchatorry an?. From Wordnik.com. [CENTERPIECE - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Critics praised Fantasia's toccata-and-fugue sequence as reminiscent of Kandinsky and Miro. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: October 7, 2001 - October 13, 2001 Archives] Reference
(Soundbite of music) HANSEN: Rolf Lislevand playing a toccata by Alessandro Picinnini on the theorbo here in Studio 4A. From Wordnik.com. [Rolf Lislevand, Improvising with 'Nuove Musiche'] Reference
The toccata worked fine, but for the life of him he couldn't figure out how to get from the end of the adagio to the scherzo. From Wordnik.com. [A Call to Arms]
Then have the second violins and the basses pick it up before segueing into the neat little toccata for brass he'd put together. From Wordnik.com. [A Call to Arms]
The same grasp of all the possible meanings of an artistic device shows itself in his treatment of the other features of toccata form. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
A sort of short toccata on the theme of what a splendid fellow you are prior to introducing the main subject of my discourse, the nature of which I currently forget. From Wordnik.com. [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]
I found, for example, a beautiful toccata by Paolo d'Aragona. From Wordnik.com. [WeLove-music] Reference
The C-sharp Minor is a running toccata, anxious, even somber. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
Liebermann (1910-1999) begins his nine-minute work with a toccata-style. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
We hear that influence especially in the driving toccata of the first movement. From Wordnik.com. [News & Features from Minnesota Public Radio] Reference
Senor Alvarez was very good, playing a range of fifteenth century music that ended with a Bach toccata. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Much of the music indeed falls into the toccata, encore, or etude category, like Mendelssohn's fleetly punishing. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
The Third Symphony is in two parts: the first consists of a passacaglia and fugue, and the second, a chorale and toccata. From Wordnik.com. [NewMusicBox] Reference
Anime allows Katz his true forte as an architect in toccata form, the arbiter of demonic restraints and emotional tugs of war. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
The flute and bassoon interchanges fly by so quickly we wonder if we are not witnesses to a toccata in the form of a monumental cassation. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
No. 7 in A Major enjoys a luster to make Rachmaninov envious, not to mention The C Minor has elements of a Spanish-style toccata, Albeniz or Falla in staccato. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
Practically every one of its practitioners is palpably under some strong foreign influence, and most of them are no more Anglo-Saxon than a samovar or a toccata. From Wordnik.com. [Prejudices : first series,] Reference
Nessuno ha il permesso di avvicinarsi a loro, e quando passa la loro processione la polizia tiene a bada la folla che cerca di raccogliere la polvere toccata dai loro piedi. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Hindus in ritual tongue-piercing in east India] Reference
In una misteriosa cattedrale, la sacra goccia viene toccata, dando vita all’uomo ed alla donna. From Wordnik.com. [No Fat Clips!!! : Water is my Eye] Reference
“It’s not easy,” K’s’t’lk said, her chiming becoming more complex, a toccata scaling up in sixths. From Wordnik.com. [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference
Bachs toccata and fugue?. From Wordnik.com. [Way to stick the - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Mr. LISLEVAND: Well I play a toccata. From Wordnik.com. [Rolf Lislevand, Improvising with 'Nuove Musiche'] Reference
HANSEN: Who is the composer of this toccata?. From Wordnik.com. [Rolf Lislevand, Improvising with 'Nuove Musiche'] Reference
It was an improvisation — a toccata. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
In the same year, 1830, he composed a toccata. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers] Reference
A: BWV 565 Q: Where does the toccata end and the. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Michael Jackson's attorney Peter Lopez dead from apparent suicide in Encino] Reference
La sorte peggiore è toccata al video "Telephone". From Wordnik.com. [ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs] Reference
The quick toccata that. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Financial News] Reference
George Malcolm / Paradisi: toccata in la. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
Ton Koopman / Bach: toccata e fuga - dorica. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
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