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Toccata

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Noun

1. toccata

a baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Toccata

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noun
a rapid keyboard composition for organ, harpsichord, etc, dating from the baroque period, usually in a rhythmically free style

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Toccata

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noun
a composition in free style for the organ, piano, etc., generally characterized by the use of full chords and running passages and often used as the prelude of a fugue

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Toccata

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n.
A virtuoso composition, usually for the organ or another keyboard instrument, in free style with brilliant passagework.

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