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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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The second finale replaces the sostenuto passage in the first finale with a ghostly toccata.
He wrote a fine organ toccata for Simon Preston and a fine guitar concerto for John Williams.
The words sennet and tucket were English manglings of the Italian terms sonata and toccata.
All types of instrumental forms were performed by ensembles except for the prelude and the toccata, which were essentially keyboard works.
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.
The opening movement combines a brass fanfare with a Widorian toccata figure for its music argument.

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