Tokata comes from Italian, which literally means touch. It is a kind of keyboard music full of freedom and improvisation, which consists of a series of broken chords and fast scales alternately, so Tokata music is also called touch music.
Tocata Tocata originated from a style of Italian Renaissance. Music [TOCCATA] style represents freedom, enthusiasm, fashion, passion and fantasy, and music can reflect a person's personality, taste, outlook on life and artistic level.
2. The development of Tokata;
(1) started in16th century, represented by C. Merulo, and was composed of free improvisation segments and fugue segments alternately.
②/kloc-in the 7th century, it gradually developed into an endless technical music in Italy.
③ It is popular in Italy in16-18th century and usually consists of several contrasting paragraphs.
/kloc-Germany developed further in the 0 th and 8 th centuries, and the characteristics of freedom and unrestrained were more prominent.
④ Sometimes used before fugue to show contrast. /kloc-after the 0/9 th century, most of them run through the whole song with a fast rhythm.
3. The characteristics of tokata:
(1) Tocata Tocata is mostly fast-paced and plays a certain role in musical instrument performance.
(2) Tokata is a genre that is relatively free and close to improvisation, with high skill, especially the use of touching keys. There are often various modeling and imitation counterpoint methods, and occasionally there are short main melody and harmony paragraphs.
It usually consists of several paragraphs, alternating between slow and fast, and usually begins with a slow rhapsody paragraph, in contrast to the more strict format paragraphs that follow.
(3) Tokata music is played by keyboard instruments, which is a kind of music with fast and clear rhythm.
4. Ten representative works of Tian:
1) Bach's Tokata and fugue in D minor.
Originally an organ work, it was one of Bach's masterpieces in his youth. Later, it was adapted for orchestra by Polish composer stokowski and for piano by Polish pianist and composer taussig. The music is in d minor, in 4/4 time.
The adagio intro composed of descending melody is full and powerful, which renders and paves the way for the grandeur of the whole song; Then, the music plays big chords, and then presents the theme of Tokata, with dramatic elements; After the theme of Tokata ended, the fugue theme appeared in the upper part of the music, and the music finally reappeared the part of Tokata, ending with a gorgeous ending.
② Topeka Tower Op. 1 1 in prokofiev.
Topeka Op. 1 1 is known as "one of the most difficult piano works in the world", which was composed by the famous composer prokofiev in 19 12. This work is pure one-movement Topeka music, and the whole track is played in a "mechanical" percussion way, with strong enthusiasm and sense of movement, bright colors and rough and powerful. Horizontal melody lines and vertical harmony are constantly intertwined in the cross-playing of both hands, and the dynamic rhythm and the expansion and expansion of texture sound form make the theme melody compact and tense. Unexpected long-span jumps often occur in performance, which adds humor and grotesque colors.