fantasia








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. fantasy(def 9).
  3. something considered to be unreal, weird, exotic, or grotesque.

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 (def. 13)
n.

“musical composition that sounds extemporaneous,” 1724, from Italian fantasia, from Latin phantasia (see fantasy).

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