Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Music A free composition structured according to the composer's fancy. Also called fantasy.
- n. Music A medley of familiar themes, with variations and interludes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In music: Originally, any instrumental piece.
- n. Any composition not in strict form or style, particularly when somewhat capricious.
- n. An irregular composition, consisting of well-known airs arranged with interludes and florid decorations, similar to a potpourri.
- n. Also fantasy, phantasy.
Wiktionary
- n. An unstructured orchestral composition.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a musical composition of a free form usually incorporating several familiar themes
Etymologies
- Italian, from Latin phantasia, fantasy; see fantasy.
Examples
“I found it worthy of integrating it into my artsy jargon and combined it with the word fantasia, which is an animated film, produced by Walt Disney.”
“When I speculated that due to the exigencies of the project it's unlikely Oliver Stone will be allowed to wander far afield from the rescue-mission story -- turning it into a Jim Morrison acid trip "fantasia" -- Mickey quizzed:”
“the third installment of fantasia is called fantasia world and will be released along with fantasia 2000 and the original fantasia on blu-ray in the upcoming future beauty and the beast will be released in 3D in 2011 to meet with its 20th anniversary movie fan on Jan 20, 2010”
Disney's Beauty and the Beast 3-D Theatrical Release Delayed « FirstShowing.net
“Prior's insistent Angel -- whose arrival is an indelible coup de theatre engineered by director Michael Greif, lighting designer Ben Stanton, sound designer Ken Travis, costume designer Clint Ramos and aerial designer Paul Rubin -- is important to the "fantasia" element of the subtitle.”
“The tipsy harmonies of the string "fantasia" which precedes the graveyard scene were superbly dark, ghoulish and expertly played.”
The Guardian: The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival
“The "fantasia" of the subtitle refers to the play's nonlinear structure, as it follows the shifting and interlocking relationships among the characters.”
“He had heard Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, so, taking Goethe's Laune des Verliebten, he started a kind of fantasia, concocting words and music together.”
Richard Wagner
“Goethe's _Laune des Verliebten_, he started a kind of fantasia, concocting words and music together.”
“Italia lacks "fantasia," the creativity that can unlock defences, and their own pedestrian attack.”
“Souvenir, his 2004 "fantasia" about the tone-deaf diva.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fantasia’.
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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Isabel's list
intrepid, faux, benevolent, quantifiability, disposition, quantum, tremulous, cupcake, fantasia, ailurophobia, somnambulist
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Movies I've Seen
There's a jar I've been adding movie ticket stubs to since about age twelve. I am pleased to have a more accessible way of keeping track of the movies I've seen. Even if some are pretty embarrassin...
ghostbusters, amadeus, miller's crossing, no reservations, hoot, insomnia, master and commander, the matrix, o brother, where ..., night of the comet, the dark knight, tropic thunder and 489 more...
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Beautiful Music
a cappella, accelerando, accompagnato, adagio, ad libitum, agitato, aleatory, alla breve, allegro, allemande, alto, andante and 548 more...
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Negasonic Teenage Warhead
"Wow, we really have run out of names."
Codenames of superheroes, supervillains, etc. (that are actual words, or unique spellings of actual words).rogue, gambit, wolverine, storm, cyclops, phoenix, cypher, beast, berzerker, toad, avalanche, magma and 125 more...
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Master
comprehensive
picaresque, carnivalesque, -esque, grotesque, Cocteau, necropolis, hypnopædic, mojito, imprimatur, insouciance, idyll, maestro and 234 more...
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things i like (movie style)
complement to list "things i like," but there were too many movie-related words so i had to create a separate list.
julie taymor, stand by me, frida, all about eve, bette davis, edward norton, american history x, yann tiersen, amelie, audrey hepburn, christopher nolan, cidade de deus and 101 more...
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D's Words
If you could "tag" people....
allemande, bebop, excessive, assiduous, bailiwick, bandana, befuddle, busker, disconcerting, clothespin, cogitate, cultivar and 55 more...
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AeidaMousa's Words
muse, evanescent, alabaster, onomatopoeia, defenestration, ephemeral, ethereal, phantasmic, fantasia, heliotrope, orality, enigma and 35 more...
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braggadocio
an addendum or Anhang to Prolagus's list 'The braggadocio recipe'
amoeba, angina, antenna, aria, arnica, audio, aurora, biro, bronco, bubo, cafe, calico and 88 more...
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Beautiful Words
Words that are beautiful to say.
ethereal, celestial, haven, hyacinth, bizarre, silhouette, phantasmagoria, vintage, meridian, dream, elegant, acquiesce and 44 more...
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impromptu, prelude, elegy, csárdás, bourrée, sarabande, partita, virtuoso, sonatina, fantasia, maestoso, lamentando and 34 more...
cxkang context: Beethoven's "Quasi una fantasia" Apr 22, 2009
john Recorded in fantasound. Mar 20, 2009