Associations to the word «Toccata»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

TOCCATA, noun. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne