It is true that heat and acid can cause proteins to denature, which means that they lose their 3-dimensional shape. A cooked egg white that becomes opaque and solid is an example. When milk is treated with acid, the protein casein curdles into a solid and the whey separates, still liquid.
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.
Very often, diatonic refers to musical elements derived from the modes and transpositions of the white note scale CâDâEâFâGâAâB. In some usages it includes all forms of heptatonic scale that are in common use in Western music (the major, and all forms of the minor). Chromatic most often refers to structures derived from the chromatic scale, which consists of all semitones.