phantasie

fantasia, also called fantasy or fancy, in music, a composition free in form and inspiration, usually for an instrumental soloist; in 16th- and 17th-century England the term was applied especially to fugal compositions (i.e., based on melodic imitation) for consorts of string or wind instruments.

What is your favorite Fantasia/Fantasy?

• Bach - Great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542.
• Bach - Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537.
• Mozart - Fantasia No.
• Beethoven - Choral Fantasy.
• Schubert - Wanderer Fantasy.
• Schubert - Fantasia in F minor.
• Schumann - Fantasie in C.

In the seventeenth century, the term fantasia referred mainly to the free nature of a text or a set melody. But the compositions often kept to the strict rules of counterpoint. It was only later that the term was also used for compositions of a more semi-improvised character.

We also find ballad in the noun "baladine", a traveller whom the reader accompanies to a faraway, imaginary and enchanted universe. So it is not surprising that fantasy, heir to English medievalism, is a genre imbued with music.

In the classical tradition, a fantasia is a free-form piece of music that resembles improvisation. The imaginative nature of the project reminded Stokowski of a fantasia, so he suggested the term as a working title for the film. The name stuck.

Fantasia by Walt Disney was an experimental film by Disney and Leopold Stokowski, an orchestra composer, that combined classical music with animation in a concert feature movie. Fantasia started with Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice starring Mickey Mouse and turned into having eight musical sections.

The 1940 Walt Disney Studio production of Fantasia has introduced classical music to several generations. The score was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski and was narrated by composer Deems Taylor. The music included Toccata and Fugue in D minor by J. S.

In the classical tradition, a fantasia is a free-form piece of music that resembles improvisation. The imaginative nature of the project reminded Stokowski of a fantasia, so he suggested the term as a working title for the film. The name stuck.

Fantasia by Walt Disney was an experimental film by Disney and Leopold Stokowski, an orchestra composer, that combined classical music with animation in a concert feature movie. Fantasia started with Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice starring Mickey Mouse and turned into having eight musical sections.

Fantasy is considered a subgenre of speculative fiction and is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the absence of scientific or macabre themes, respectively, though these genres overlap.

Fantasy fiction is a genre of fiction that involves elements that cannot exist within the real world. This fictional universe includes things like magic, mythology, or life from other worlds or universes.

Fantasia is a remarkable spectacle of music and imagery, featuring music by some of history's most influential classical composers, including Bach, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Ponchielli, Mussorgski, Schubert and Dukas.