toccata

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

In music, a work for a keyboard-instrument, like the pianoforte or organ, originally intended to utilize and display varieties of touch: but the term has been extended so as to include many irregular works, similar to the prelude, the fantasia, and the improvisation.

An old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude, fantasia, or capriccio.

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

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