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A Toccata of Galuppi's
"A Toccata of Galuppi's" is a poem by Robert Browning, originally published in the 1855 collection ''Men and Women''. The title refers to the fact that the speaker is either playing or listening to a toccata by the 18th-century Venetian composer Baldassare Galuppi. The poem consists of fifteen rhymed tercets; its prevailing meter is trochaic octameter catalectic.
==Musical background==
It is not known whether Browning was thinking of any one piece by Galuppi; in Galuppi's time, the terms "toccata" and "sonata" were less clearly differentiated than they later became, and were used interchangeably.〔 A number of Galuppi's sonatas have been suggested as Browning's inspiration, but as Charles van den Borren wrote in ''The Musical Times'', "every poet has the right to evade the prosaic minutiae of fact", and it is impossible to state with confidence that one Galuppi piece has more claim than another to be the inspiration for the poem.〔Borren, Charles van den, trans. Richard Capell. ("Round about A Toccata of Galuppi's", ) ''The Musical Times'', 1 May 1923, pp 314–316 〕
Commentators have remarked on the musicality of the poem.〔Plamondon, Marc R. ("'What do you mean by your mountainous fugues?': A Musical Reading of Browning's 'A Toccata of Galuppi's' and 'Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha'", ) ''Victorian Poetry'', Vol. 37, No. 3 (Fall 1999), pp. 309–332 〕 Browning was trained extensively in music, both in composition and musical theory.〔 Professional musicians and musicologists have been dismissive of his use of musical terms, but the music scholar Deryck Cooke writes of the poet's precise grasp of fine musical detail in this work.〔Cooke, p. 71〕 David Parkinson identifies "a link between each syllable of the poem and the musical notes of a scale."〔Parkinson, David (1986). "'A Toccata of Galuppi's' – Even the Title's an Octave", ''quoted'' in Plamondon, p. 309〕 Stephen H. Ford contends that the whole poem is constructed "on a double octave form".〔Ford, Stephen H. (1986). "The Musical Form of Robert Browning's ''A Toccata of Galuppi's''", ''quoted'' in Plamondon, p. 309〕 Marc R. Plamondon argues that Browning's subjective interpretation produces "not just a commentary on music, but a complex portrait of the person attempting to interpret the music."〔 The critic Robert C. Schweik argues that the poem does not require the reader to know Galuppi's music, and that Browning does not provide any description of what the music is really like.〔
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