Toccata arrangement of the J.S. Bach Toccata, BWV 565, on their album Sky 2, featuring keyboardist Francis Monkman. Robert Browning used the motif or concept of a toccata by Baldassare Galuppi to evoke thoughts of human transience in his poem "A Toccata of Galuppi's" (although Galuppi did not actually write any piece with the name 'Toccata'). Toccata Toccata (from Italian "toccare", literally, "to touch") is a virtuoso piece of music typically for a keyboard or plucked string instrument featuring fast-moving, lightly fingered or otherwise virtuosic passages or sections, with or without imitative or fugal interludes, generally emphasizing the dexterity of the
Toccata for Toy Trains models. Eames says the modern era has lost the art of toymaking in the attempt to have "a perfect little copy of the real thing". Toccata for Toy Trains Toccata for Toy Trains is a 1957 short film by Charles and Ray Eames, one of several films (including "Powers of Ten", made many years later) the husband-and-wife design team made during their career. "Toccata for Toy Trains" is also the title of the instrumental music composed for the film by Elmer Bernstein, a frequent collaborator on the Eames films. The film features mostly antique toy trains moving within fanciful settings