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What is a toccata?

What is a toccata? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) A piece of music (usually for a keyboard instrument) designed to emphasise the dexterity of the performer.
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All types of instrumental forms were performed by ensembles except for the prelude and the toccata, which were essentially keyboard works.
The opening movement combines a brass fanfare with a Widorian toccata figure for its music argument.
Understandably, the authorship of the toccata has long been a puzzle to musicologists.
The second finale replaces the sostenuto passage in the first finale with a ghostly toccata.
The toccata of Galuppi left behind as its relics the melancholy of mundane pleasure and a sense of its transitory existence.
I wish you would send me Handel's six fugues and the toccata and fugues by Eberlin.

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