fancy
| In music, old English term equivalent to the Italian fantasia, that is, a polyphonic composition for a consort of viols, broken consort, or keyboard instrument. Fancies had no definitely determined form, but always made considerable use of counterpoint and were generally divided into a number of sections, played without a break but not thematically connected. |
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