A fantasia-like composition for a keyboard instrument that displayed virtuosity in the art of "touching" the keyboard. In the Baroque era the toccata often served as an introduction to a fug [..]

Literally “touch piece,” a virtuoso composition for keyboard or plucked-string instrument featuring sections of brilliant passage work.

A toccata is an instrumental piece, often designed to display the technical proficiency of a performer and found particularly in keyboard music from the 15th century onwards. There are notable examples in the organ music of J.S. Bach, with some toccatas containing a series of movements.

1724, from Italian toccata, from toccare "to touch," from Vulgar Latin *toccare (see touch (v.)). "A composition for a keyboard instrument, intended to exhibit the touch and technique o [..]

(Latin meaning "touch") - a virtuoso piece composed to display the technical skill of the player, usually with full chords, arpeggios and running passages, in a free fantasy style.

a virtuoso composition, generally for organ or harpsichord, in a free and rhapsodic style. In the Baroque period, it often was the introduction to a fugue.

A virtuoso work characterized by brilliant passagework, and often perpetual motion.

A keyboard piece. It is often designed to display the technical proficiency of the performer. Best examples are those of JS Bach. It may contain a series of movements.

A piece for keyboard, usually technically demanding, intended as a display for virtuosity.

a piece for keyboard intended to display virtuosity. trio sonata:

a virtuoso piece for keyboard (usually organ or harpsichord) employing dazzling passage work and dramatic chords in an idiomatic setting for the instrument.

An improvisatory style of keyboard music especially popular during the Baroque.

A toccata is a keyboard piece intended to show off the player’s skill.

A 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 interlud [..]

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