Hands off, don't you mean?
Yes, hence schoolboy titters (well, young student titters) at being
introduced to Kirnberger's 'On the art of tossing off a sonata' many years
ago.
(It's brilliantly simple: you take a sonata that you like, invent a new
melody to go over the existing harmony, then invent new harmony to go with
the new melody.)
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> Subject: Re: any formalists in the crowd? Having difficulty
> with scansion; wondering if the piece is worth working on ...
> I know the rhyme scheme isn't right
>
> Time for a straw poll, I think. Hands up if you knew that the
> expression "to toss off " meant "to masturbate".
>
> Dominic
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