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fantasia

[ fan-tey-zhuh, -zhee-uh, fan-tuh-zee-uh ]

noun

  1. Music.
    1. a composition in fanciful or irregular form or style.
    2. a potpourri of well-known airs arranged with interludes and florid embellishments.
  2. something considered to be unreal, weird, exotic, or grotesque.


fantasia

/ ˌfæntəˈzɪə; fænˈteɪzɪə /

noun

  1. any musical composition of a free or improvisatory nature
  2. a potpourri of popular tunes woven freely into a loosely bound composition
  3. another word for fancy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fantasia1

From Italian, dating back to 1715–25; fantasy
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fantasia1

C18: from Italian: fancy; see fantasy
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Example Sentences

Audiences exhausted by lockdowns and unrelenting 2020-ness were primed for escape into the undersea fantasia of South Africa’s kelp forests, where Foster met her.

What do we remember more fondly: Fantasia torching a rendition of “Summertime?”

But here the fantasia fell flat, and pleased neither the public nor the musicians.

At an orchestral rehearsal, held specially for him, he conducted his new Don Quixote Fantasia.

On this same occasion Tchaikovsky begged Vladimir Stassov to suggest a subject for a symphonic fantasia.

I have only just finished the composition of a new work, the symphonic fantasia, Francesca da Rimini.

This is especially the case in the Fantasia, where the connection of parts is anything but masterly.

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