This is the sheet music for the Harpsichord Toccata from Fantasia No. 1. Possessing the mood but lacking the structural components of the keyboard sonatas by the eighteenth century Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian masters, the Toccata has a free form, rhapsodic quality with rapidly developing sections. This piece, like many of the earlier toccatas, was at first designed in the mid-1970s for the purpose of testing various keyboard instruments. Now it has been revised and recomposed as the basis for a study in instrumentation. Fantasia No. 1 will comprise a suite of pieces based on the Toccata to be released at the rate of approximately one a month during the first half of 2009. The Toccata is also available as mp3 and wma downloads (Lulu items 5527968 and 5500709). The preview displays the music that plays in the audio previews. A brief e-mail to the composer at wrippo@comcast.net stating what you like or dislike about this piece or its preview would be greatly appreciated....More >< Less