¿Qué es "Tacatá"?
There is a song named Tacatá by Tacabro. It probably is some sort of common slang (hopefully not vulgar), but I'm trying to figure out what is meant by the word. The direct translation comes up as a walker (as in for the infirm) but I really doubt they wrote a song about walking aides. Thanks for your help!
4 Answers
It's not a misspelling of "toccata" which is in fact an English word relating to a musical composition. It may be a misspelling of "tocata" which I believe is the Spanish spelling.
It's actually a mis-spelling of toccata.
Toccata (which means touched) is a piece of music that really shows off the skills of the musician, usually with very fast runs of notes on a keyboard or strings. It can be used to mean mad or insane.
It's also a slang word for having sex.
Tacatá is called the baby walker
"Tocata (del Italiano toccata, 'para toca') es una pieza de música renacentista y música barroca para teclado, que generalmente enfatiza la destreza del practicante. Menos frecuentemente, se utiliza para referirse a trabajos para múltiples instrumentos (la apertura de la ópera de Claudio Monteverdi, Orfeo, es uno de los ejemplos más notables). Dicha forma apareció por primera vez en el periodo renacentista, donde se originó en el norte de Italia. Varias publicaciones de los años 1590 incluyen tocatas, escritas por compositores tales como Girolamo Diruta, Adriano Banchieri, Claudio Merulo, Andrea y Giovanni Gabrieli, y Luzzasco Luzzaschi entre otros...."
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