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Fantasia (music)


 

The fantasia (also English fantasy, German fantasie, French fantaisie) is a musical composition with its roots in the art of improvisation. Because of this, it seldom approximates the textbook rules of any strict musical form.

Further reading

  • English Chamber Music by Ernst Hermann Meyer. Reference on the early English fantasy (fantazy, fantasie, fantasia.) Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1946. (Was republished by Da Capo Press, 1971, with ISBN 0306700379.)