TOCCATA

Toccata

Toccata is a virtuoso piece of music typically for a keyboard or plucked string instrument featuring fast-moving, lightly fingered or otherwise virtuosic passages or sections, with or without imitative or fugal interludes, generally emphasizing the dexterity of the performer's fingers. Less frequently, the name is applied to works for multiple instruments .

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toccata

Noun

  1. A piece of music (usually for a keyboard instrument) designed to emphasise the dexterity of the performer.


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