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See also:FANTASIA (See also:Italian for " fantasy," a causing to be seen, from See also:Greek, 4aivew, to show)
, a name in See also:music sometimes loosely used for a See also:composition which has little structural See also:form, and appears to be an improvization; and also for a See also:combination or medley of See also:familiar airs connected together with See also:original passages of more or less brilliance
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The word, however, was originally applied to more formal compositions, based on the See also:madrigal, for several See also:instruments
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Fantasias appear as distinct compositions in See also:Bach's See also:works, and also joined to a See also:fugue, as in the " See also:Great See also:Fantasia and Fugue " in A See also:minor, and the " Fantasia cromatica " in D minor
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See also:Brahms used the name for his shorter piano pieces
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It is also applied to orchestral compositions " not See also:long enough to be called symphonic poems and not formal enough to be called overtures " (See also:Sir C
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See also:Hubert See also:Parry, in See also: |
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