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fantasia

In music, a free-form instrumental composition for keyboard or chamber ensemble, originating in the late Renaissance, and much favoured by the English composers John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons, and William Byrd.

It implies the free manipulation of musical figures without regard to models of form. Later composers include Georg Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Mozart.

Fantasia

Animated film released in 1940 by Walt Disney. It combined filmed animation with classical music pieces such as Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, and Paul Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

The combination of the two elements was the idea of the conductor Leopold Stokowski, who introduces the film. It won Disney an Academy Award.



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But the more he listened to the fantasia of Ring Lear the further he felt from forming any definite opinion of it.
A sprightly tramp promised greater difficulty, and nothing but some ferocious pantomime and a shilling persuaded him to forego a choice fantasia of cockney humour.
At this violation of all known rules and precedents of order, the mayor commanded another fantasia on the bell, and declared that he would bring before himself, both Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, of Fizkin Lodge, and the Honourable Samuel Slumkey, of Slumkey Hall, and bind them over to keep the peace.
 
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