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Organ Symphony No. 5: Toccata

18795 min

This guide follows Widor’s Organ Symphony No. 5: Toccata (1879) in one part.

Recording: Thomas Ospital (organ)

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Follow all 6 sections as they play

()0:01–5:11

Marked . A short leads to the main music (A): the nonstop sixteenth notes over the melody, with a descending bass line under each . The music keeps changing as it goes, and then a contrasting section (B) starts. A prepares the of the main material (A′). The ends with loud block chords in the final three .

  1. A

Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.

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Charles-Marie WidorOrganLate Romantic period

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