#Toccata

[maledettadaunangelo]

Sono caduta. Mi sono rialzata. E poi sono caduta ancora. E ancora. E alla fine sono diventata più chiusa di com'ero, per difendermi, per non essere più toccata da cose che fanno male.

Roberto Emanuelli, Ora amati

[lesser-known-composers]

Louis Vierne (1870-1937) - Toccata (24 pièces de fantaisie Op.53)

Thomas Ospital sur le grand orgue de l'église Saint-Eustache, Paris.

[balsanja]

Sky - Toccata

[rastronomicals]

6:03 AM EST February 6, 2024:

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "Toccata" From the album Brain Salad Surgery (November 19, 1973)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under:    Albums named after songs that aren't even on them     

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[vox-anglosphere]

The Great Organ of York Minster, fully restored to its former glory.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔜𝔫𝔤𝔴𝔦𝔢 𝔍𝔬𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔫 𝔐𝔞𝔩𝔪𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔢𝔫 - 𝔗𝔬𝔠𝔠𝔞𝔱𝔞

[musicollage]

Matthias Weckmann + Katzschke – Works for harpsichord. 2006 : Cpo.

! listen @ Apple Music ★ buy me a coffee !

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Historically important composer, pedagogue, theorist, essayist, and concert pianist Ferruccio Busoni (1866 - 1924) dies in Berlin. From an early age, Busoni was an outstanding, if sometimes controversial, pianist. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory, and thereafter devoted himself to composing, teaching, and touring as a virtuoso concert pianist all across Europe and the United States. Busoni's academic and theoretical writings on music were highly influential in their day, and in them he covered not only aesthetic considerations but also explorations of microtonal harmony and other innovative technical topics. Busoni began composing early on (in a typical "late Romantic" style), but after 1907 -- when he published his "Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music" -- he developed a much more distinctive and progressive approach, which often flirted with atonality. His visits to America also led to a growing interest in North American indigenous tribal melodies, which was reflected in some of his later works. Although none of Busoni's original music has really remained in the core performance repertoire, it is a fascinating body of work which is well deserving of exploration by pianists who possess strong techniques. The "Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition" was founded in Busoni's honor in 1949, in order to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his death. It remains one of the most important international piano competitions in the world today. In addition -- and fittingly, given that today is also the anniversary of the death of J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) -- Busoni's virtuoso piano transcriptions of Bach's works continue to hold the concert stage. PICTURED: At atmospheric cabinet photograph of the middle-aged Busoni, shown looking up from a score in his library and casting a penetrating stare into the camera, which he has signed and inscribed to a female admirer in Vienna in 1908. (That admirer, Berta Flatau nee Engel [1889 - 1943], would later tragically perish in a Nazi concentration camp in Poland.)

[ofgreatart]

'I am Music’ - L'Orfeo: Toccata (Teatro La Fenice: the 450th anniversary of the birth of Claudio Monteverdi)

The Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists Sir John Eliot Gardiner - 2016 / 2017

L'Orfeo toccata - Claudio Monteverdi - Jordi Savall

[chameleonsynthesis]

#I didn't think this was going to be playable

It's only the stems and flags that are stretched and warped to form the cat image. All the note heads and accidentals (and rests) are properly on the staff and ledger lines.

I'd bet the for-actually-playing-from sheet music looks normal.

To-cat-ata in B by sympawnies

[lesser-known-composers]

Paolo Quagliati (ca.1555-1628) - Toccata dell'ottavo tono

Emilia Agajew - harp & Kristiina Watt - chitarrone

[automaticfrenchhorn]

Today's study is an experiment in the toccata style. The manuals play a technical interlocking pattern, while the pedals lead melodically. As someone who is not very skilled at keyboard instruments, I can't exactly say how difficult/demanding/practical this piece is. Each staff seems playable on its own, but I can't say how it would be to put together.

I had been weary of the louder stops when I first started writing for organ, but today I decided to lean into it, and feature the trumpets. I found they have a nice blend with the mutation stops, creating a very rich sound. The registration on the swell combines the mutations with viola/vox celeste, which I found creates a very interesting timbre, with a haziness that fits the wavy ostinato well.

The layers of the texture swap in the second half of the piece, and the pedals take on the ostinato. This part would probably have been better in the LH, but the particular registration earlier made it difficult for me to find a way to get this timbre on that manual. Oh well. The ending is corny but I couldn't think of anything else. Oh well.

As always, these pieces are welcome for anyone and everyone to play! All I ask is that you share it with me, because I'd love to hear it done by a live player!

[sosomikeladze]

პოლ მორია - ტოკატა (ქავერი)

წარმოგიდგენთ სახელოვანი ფრანგი კომპოზიტორის, დირიჟორისა და არანჟირების ოსტატის, პოლ მორიას, მიერ დამუშავებულ ნაწარმოებს “ტოკატა” (1973). ეს მუსიკალური შედევრი ეკუთვნის ფრანგ კომპოზიტორ გასტონ როლანს, თუმცა პოლ მორიამ “ტოკატა” გადაამუშავა და სრულიად განსხვავებულად ააჟღერა. დიდი მაესტრო�� ორკესტრის მიერ შესრულებული “ტოკატა” აგერ უკვე 50 წელზე მეტია ისმის ყველგან – სცენაზე, ტელევიზიაში, კინოში,…

[rastronomicals]

3:24 AM EST December 2, 2023:

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "Toccata" From the album Brain Salad Surgery (November 19, 1973)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under:    Albums named after songs that aren't even on them     

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