| In three movements, played without a break, the symphony begins deceptively, as a more-or-less neoclassic toccata. |
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| The opening movement combines a brass fanfare with a Widorian toccata figure for its music argument. |
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| Understandably, the authorship of the toccata has long been a puzzle to musicologists. |
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| The second finale replaces the sostenuto passage in the first finale with a ghostly toccata. |
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| He wrote a fine organ toccata for Simon Preston and a fine guitar concerto for John Williams. |
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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. |
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| The fourth and last variation is a toccata which gradually ties in again with the first elements of the introduction. |
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| 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. |
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| The words sennet and tucket were English manglings of the Italian terms sonata and toccata. |
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| Beginning with a toccata for 12 car horns, the music constantly shifts its style and is never dull. |
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| The piece contains many of the principle elements of the toccata style: improvisatory harmonic and melodic development, sweeping scales and broken chord figuration. |
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| His fantasies, for example, display the form from entirely new, incomparably varied, perspective: imitative sections alternate with episodes of toccata or canzone, or even with dance sequences. |
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| Dubois wrote in many forms including symphonies, operas, and ballets but only his oratorio, The Seven Last Words of Christ, and an organ toccata are occasionally heard on the concert stage. |
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| Although a few principal types can be distinguished from among the freely composed works for organ, the terminology is unable to establish impassable borders between the prelude, the toccata and the fantasy. |
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| Selections include a variety of chorales, praeludiums, a toccata, a canzonetta and two Magnificat settings, all by Buxtehude. |
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| The thrilling Toccata with its driving momentum was riveting, coloured by strumming repeated-note effects and buoyant Yemenite dance figures. |
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| Bach's most famous organ work, the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, was transcribed for violin by Bruce Fox-Lefriche. |
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| Giovanni Picchi's Toccata showed off the chamber organ beautifully, sounding more like a church organ in some dusty, out of the way Italian town. |
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| The baroque churches are glorious, chocolate-box designs, as playful and loveable as the clockwork stars of Toccata for Toy Trains. |
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