This musical form gained prominence in the Baroque period, when it was used for free-form keyboard pieces that showed off manual dexterity.
Gaspar Cassado passed off one of these pieces for cello and piano as a transcription from Frescobaldi, who published two books pairing these pieces with partitas. Robert Schumann's opus 7 is an extremely difficult example of one of these pieces in C. Debussy composed one of these works as the third and final piece in his suite Pour le piano. Charles-Marie Widor's fifth organ symphony ends with a movement of this type. Examples of these pieces in the 20th century include Prokofiev's Opus 11, which begins with rapidly repeated D's. This musical form gained prominence in the Baroque period, when it was used for free-form keyboard pieces that showed off manual dexterity. For 10 points, identify this type of piece that J. S. Bach paired with a fugue in D minor, and whose name comes from the Italian for "touch."
Gaspar Cassado passed off one of these pieces for cello and piano as a transcription from Frescobaldi, who published two books pairing these pieces with partitas.
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