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 are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats