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fantasia|fantaˈzia, fænˈtɑːzɪə, -ˈteɪ-|
[a. It. fantasia (see fantasy), lit. ‘fancy’, hence ‘an instrumental composition having the appearance of being extemporaneous’ (Tommaseo).]
1. a. Mus. ‘A composition in a style in which form is subservient to fancy’ (Stainer and Barrett).
1724Explic. Foreign Words in Music 30 Fantasia, is a Kind of Air, wherein the Composer..has all the Freedom and Liberty allowed him for his Fancy or Invention, that can reasonably be desir'd. 1776Sir J. Hawkins Hist. Music IV. iv. 47 His [Hilton's] Compositions were for the most part Fantasias for the viols and organ. 1815European Mag. July 46/1 The first movement, termed ‘Fantasia’..is a most spirited..effort. 1879Grove Dict. Mus. I. 503/1 Fantasia..was the immediate predecessor of the term Sonata.
b. transf. and fig.
1818E. Blaquiere tr. Pananti's Narr. Res. Algiers xix. 367 These excesses called fantasias, or paroxysms of passions. 1880J. H. Shorthouse J. Inglesant xxvi. 372 Wandering amid this brilliant fantasia of life, Inglesant's heart smote him. 1896‘J. O. Hobbes’ (title) The Herb-Moon. A Fantasia. 1919G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House p. xlix, Heartbreak House: a Fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes. 1921D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia 41 Every wretched bit of would-be extra chic is called a fantasia. 1922― (title) Fantasia of the Unconscious. 1935H. G. Wells Things to Come v. 33 Long lines of steel-helmeted men. Lorries full of men. Lorries full of shells. Great dumps of shells. A fantasia of war material in motion. 1957T. S. Eliot On Poetry & Poets 83 A suspension of the action in order to enjoy a poetic fantasia: these passages are really less related to the action than are the choruses in Murder in the Cathedral.
‖2. The It. word is current in the Levant and North Africa, in the senses:
a. Ostentation, pomp, self-importance;
b. A kind of Arab dance; also, an exhibition of evolutions on horseback by a troop of Arabs.
1838Sparks Biog. IX. Eaton viii. 263 But they must have a consul with less fantasia. 1859Wraxall tr. R. Houdin II. viii. 239 Our captain had arranged for us the surprise of a fantasia. 1873Tristram Moab ii. 28 A capital ‘fantasia’ or Arab dance..round our camp fire. |