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 performer's fingers. Less frequently, the name is applied to works for multiple instruments (the opening of Claudio Monteverdi's opera "L'Orfeo" being a notable example). The form first appeared in the late Renaissance period. It originated in northern Italy. Several publications of the 1590s include toccatas, by composers such as Claudio Merulo, Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli,
What Comes Next What Comes Next What Comes Next is a psychological thriller written by the American author John Katzenbach published in September 2010. Just like "The Analyst" it stayed at the very top of the best seller books. It was translated into German, Spanish, English and Portuguese. The story talks about a retired psychology professor that witnesses a tortured young woman in the process of running away from home, kidnapped off the street. Unsatisfied by the police response, he decides to find her on his own. She is being held prisoner by a deranged and driven couple that are running an exclusive