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TOCCATA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does toccata mean?
• TOCCATA (noun)
The noun TOCCATA has 1 sense:
1. a baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style
Familiarity information: TOCCATA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("toccata" is a kind of...):
composition; musical composition; opus; piece; piece of music (a musical work that has been created)
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