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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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Understandably, the authorship of the toccata has long been a puzzle to musicologists.
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 fourth and last variation is a toccata which gradually ties in again with the first elements of the introduction.
He wrote a fine organ toccata for Simon Preston and a fine guitar concerto for John Williams.
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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