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		Definition of fantasia in English: fantasianounˌfantəˈziːəfanˈteɪzɪəfænˈteɪziə 1A musical composition with a free form and often an improvisatory style.  Example sentencesExamples -  The fanfare fantasia before the choral entrance even includes clams.
 -  Though four generations older than Henry Purcell, Orlando Gibbons wrote a body of music for viols that exerts much the same fascination as Purcell's later and more familiar viol fantasias.
 -  The finale is a joyous fantasia on much of the music deployed earlier with such skill and evident delight.
 -  Brahms's Violin Concerto begins with a long ritornello, but for most 19th-century composers sonata form and the fantasia were more important than the ritornello principle.
 -  It falls somewhere between a large symphonic movement and a fantasia.
 
 - 1.1 A musical composition based on several familiar tunes.
 Example sentencesExamples -  Glinka once again established formal and stylistic ground plans for future Russian composers in his orchestral fantasia Kamarinskaya, based on two Russian folk tunes.
 -  This young Chinese clarinettist's recital of potted fantasias on operas by Verdi, Bellini and Ponchielli is bravura fluff.
 -  Dowland, of course, had written seven lute fantasias based on his song ‘Break now, my heart, and die’ under the title Lacrimae, or Seven Teares.
 -  The famous Pye recordings of Vaughan Williams ‘Greensleeves’ and Thomas Tallis fantasias are reproduced in stunning sound and they remain my particular favourite for these overplayed works.
 -  As with its corresponding number in the first orchestral set, the second movement - depicting a camp meeting - is a fantasia based mainly on ragtime dances Ives wrote for the piano in the early 1900s.
 
  - 1.2 A thing composed of a mixture of different forms or styles.
 the theatre is a kind of Moorish and Egyptian fantasia  Example sentencesExamples -  Perelman's free-associative style spun fantasias out of girdle ads, tabloid tattle, sleazy pulp fiction and recipe prose.
 -  This re-release of Amadeus, described by Shaffer as ‘a fantasia based on fact’, boasts 20 additional minutes of music and drama.
 -  Based on Virginia Woolf's glittering fantasia written as a love-letter to Vita Sackville-West, the story covers four hundred years of history.
 
  
 
 Origin   Early 18th century: from Italian, 'fantasy', from Latin phantasia (see fantasy). Rhymes   Anastasia, aphasia, brazier, dysphasia, dysplasia, euthanasia, Frazier, glazier, grazier, gymnasia, Malaysia    Definition of fantasia in US English: fantasianounfænˈteɪziəfanˈtāzēə 1A musical composition with a free form and often an improvisatory style.  Example sentencesExamples -  Brahms's Violin Concerto begins with a long ritornello, but for most 19th-century composers sonata form and the fantasia were more important than the ritornello principle.
 -  The finale is a joyous fantasia on much of the music deployed earlier with such skill and evident delight.
 -  The fanfare fantasia before the choral entrance even includes clams.
 -  Though four generations older than Henry Purcell, Orlando Gibbons wrote a body of music for viols that exerts much the same fascination as Purcell's later and more familiar viol fantasias.
 -  It falls somewhere between a large symphonic movement and a fantasia.
 
 - 1.1 A musical composition based on several familiar tunes.
 Example sentencesExamples -  Dowland, of course, had written seven lute fantasias based on his song ‘Break now, my heart, and die’ under the title Lacrimae, or Seven Teares.
 -  As with its corresponding number in the first orchestral set, the second movement - depicting a camp meeting - is a fantasia based mainly on ragtime dances Ives wrote for the piano in the early 1900s.
 -  This young Chinese clarinettist's recital of potted fantasias on operas by Verdi, Bellini and Ponchielli is bravura fluff.
 -  Glinka once again established formal and stylistic ground plans for future Russian composers in his orchestral fantasia Kamarinskaya, based on two Russian folk tunes.
 -  The famous Pye recordings of Vaughan Williams ‘Greensleeves’ and Thomas Tallis fantasias are reproduced in stunning sound and they remain my particular favourite for these overplayed works.
 
  - 1.2 A thing composed of a mixture of different forms or styles.
 the theater is a kind of Moorish and Egyptian fantasia  Example sentencesExamples -  Perelman's free-associative style spun fantasias out of girdle ads, tabloid tattle, sleazy pulp fiction and recipe prose.
 -  This re-release of Amadeus, described by Shaffer as ‘a fantasia based on fact’, boasts 20 additional minutes of music and drama.
 -  Based on Virginia Woolf's glittering fantasia written as a love-letter to Vita Sackville-West, the story covers four hundred years of history.
 
  
 
 Origin   Early 18th century: from Italian, ‘fantasy’, from Latin phantasia (see fantasy).     |