Word: toccatas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bach: Toccata (Adagio & Fugue) in C Major (Alexander Borovsky, piano; Vox, 4 sides). One of Bach's great and frequently transcribed organ works, here played somewhat murkily on the piano. Recording: good...
...organization into a "concert band." Malcolm H. Holmes '28, dean of the New England Conservatory of Music and a band associate since his undergraduate days, plans to add well known classical scores to its repertoire. The "Orpheus Overture," Rossint's "William Tell Overture," and possibly Bach's difficult "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" will see production...
...valley below Tanglewood's Victorian-gabled main house, Guernsey cows grazed amiably around the dairy barn. In the barn stalls a pianist raced through the Bach-Busoni Toccata in C Major; in the hayloft upstairs a madrigal group worked over Purcells 17th-Century masque opera, King Arthur. Somewhere in a clump of birch a lone flutist piped the theme of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe. Down by the shores of inky Lake Mahkeenac, a brass section blared Moussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain, and inside the lakeside clubhouse 23-year-old Composer Lukas Foss, a Koussevitzky...
Composer Schönberg's music, as usual, sounded to the uninitiated as if the Philharmonic were methodically playing the Chicken Reel, a Bach Toccata and Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean all at once and in different keys. Nobody doubted that Hitler richly deserved...
...allied to the Elizabethan stage directions sennet (also senet, sennate, cynet, signet, signate) and tucket, both indicating musical flourishes. There are no musical samples extant of sennets and tuckets. Sennet may have derived from "seven," perhaps meant a seven-note trumpet call. Tucket most probably stems from the Italian toccata (meaning a touch), and in all likelihood originally signified a drum sound...