Crossword-Solution: TOCCATAS 8 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Toccatas: the Toccata was a form of musical composition for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the modern fantasia or capriccio; clavichord: “a keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte {now called a piano}.”--Webster.

Look at that oak wood behind the pines.” “'While you sat and played toccatas stately, at the clavichord,'” Sophie hummed, and, head on one side, nodded to where the perfect mirror should hang.

The Toccatas of Pasquini, published by Roger, and a so-called "Sonata,"[50] printed by Weitzmann in the work just referred to, constitute, we believe, all that has hitherto appeared in print of this composer.

Then in some inexplicable fashion it came to stand as a generic term for instrumental compositions such as toccatas, sonatas, etc.

Pour into each breast as much as it will hold of the new strong wine of love: and, for fear they should take cold by exposure, cover them quickly up with a quantity of obscure classical quotations, a few familiar allusions to an unknown period of history, and a half-destroyed fresco by an early master, varied every now and then with a reference to the fugues or toccatas of a quite-forgotten composer.