fantasia

English - Turkish

Definition of fantasia in English Turkish dictionary: fantezi; fantazi; (isim) fantezi [müz.]; {i} fantezi [müz.]

English - English

Definition of fantasia in English English dictionary: An unstructured orchestral composition; {i} fanciful composition (Music); imaginative or fanciful work (Literature); A fantasia is a piece of music that is not written in a traditional or fixed form. a US film made by Walt Disney, which consists of a number of different short cartoons, each one with its own piece of classical music (1940). a piece of music that does not have a regular form or style (phantasia; FANTASY). Musical composition free in form and inspiration, often for an instrumental soloist. Most fantasias try to convey the impression of improvisation. The first were Italian works for lute ( 1530). Keyboard fantasias became common in the late 16th century; both organ and harpsichord fantasias flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries in Britain, Germany, and France. Fugal, imitative texture, sometimes highly learned in character, was common from the beginning, often alternating with running passagework and highly chromatic chordal passages in free rhythms. Ensemble fantasias were widely composed as well; a musical composition of a free form usually incorporating several familiar themes; A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form