| In three movements, played without a break, the symphony begins deceptively, as a more-or-less neoclassic toccata. |
| I wish you would send me Handel's six fugues and the toccata and fugues by Eberlin. |
| The first section is built on a machine-like ostinato in toccata form that travels from the violas to the first violins, and eventually to the entire orchestra. |
| Understandably, the authorship of the toccata has long been a puzzle to musicologists. |
| Beginning with a toccata for 12 car horns, the music constantly shifts its style and is never dull. |
| The words sennet and tucket were English manglings of the Italian terms sonata and toccata. |
