Fantasia (music) - Citizendia

The fantasia (also English: fantasy, fancy, German: Fantasie, French: fantaisie) is a musical composition with its roots in the art of improvisation. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people Improvisation (also called extemporization) is the practice of acting singing talking and reacting of making and creating in the moment and in response to the stimulus of Because of this, it seldom approximates the textbook rules of any strict musical form (as with the impromptu). The term musical form refers to two related concepts the type of composition (for example a musical work can have the form of a Symphony, a An impromptu (loosely meaning "offhand" is a free-form musical composition with the character of an improvisation usually for a solo instrument such as piano

In the Baroque and Classical music eras, a fantasia was typically a piece for keyboard instruments with alternating sections of rapid passagework and fugal texture. Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 and 1750. The dates of the Classical period in Western music are generally accepted as 1750 to 1810 A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a Musical keyboard. In Music, a fugue (ˈfjuːg is a type of contrapuntal composition or technique of composition for a fixed number of parts, normally referred From the Baroque period, J. S. Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903, for harpsichord; Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542, for organ; and Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537, for organ are examples. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section.2 This article is written in British English including maximised use of "-ise" BWV is also the SIL code for the Language Bahau River Kenyah spoken in Borneo. A harpsichord is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. BWV is also the SIL code for the Language Bahau River Kenyah spoken in Borneo. The organ (from Greek όργανον – organon "organ instrument tool" is a Keyboard instrument of one or more divisions each BWV is also the SIL code for the Language Bahau River Kenyah spoken in Borneo. For an example from the Classical period, see Mozart's Fantasia in D minor, K. Fantasia No 3 in D minor K 397 ( Fantasy in English Fantasie in German is a piece of music for solo piano composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 397 (see Köchel) for fortepiano. This is a complete list of the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, listed chronologically. Fortepiano designates the early version of the Piano, from its invention by the Italian instrument maker Bartolomeo Cristofori around 1700 up to the early 19th century In contemporary music, Busoni's Fantasia Contrappuntistica or Corigliano's Fantasia on an ostinato are examples of a fantasia. Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto Busoni (April 1 1866 &ndash July 27 1924 was an Italian Composer, Pianist, musical educator and conductor. Fantasia Contrappuntistica is a solo piano piece composed by Ferruccio Busoni. John Corigliano (b February 16, 1938, New York City New York) is an American Composer of Classical music and a teacher In Music, an Ostinato (derived from Italian: "stubborn" see also Oscillation) is a motif or phrase which is persistently

The term also referred in the Baroque era (more specifically British Tudor music) to pieces for viols, characteristically- though not always- alternating, in this case rapid fugal sections with slower sections in slow notes and sometimes clashing harmonies. Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 and 1750. According to the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Music's entry the instrumental fantasia was closely related in its history and form to the motet. In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions Henry Purcell's fantasias are the last Baroque representatives of the breed, although Walter Willson Cobbett, in the opening decades of the 20th century, attempted to resurrect something of this style via a competition, to which works like John Ireland's and Frank Bridge's phantasie-trios, Benjamin Britten's phantasie-quartet (for oboe and strings) and other music owe their existence. Henry Purcell (ˈpɜrsəl 10 September 1659 (? – 21 November 1695 was an English Baroque Composer. Walter Willson Cobbett (1847-1937 was a British businessman and amateur violinist and editor/author of Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music. The twentieth century of the Common Era began on John Nicholson Ireland ( 13 August 1879 &ndash 12 June 1962) was an English composer Frank Bridge (26 February 1879 &ndash 10 January 1941 was an English Composer. Edward Benjamin Britten Baron Britten, OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976 was an English Composer, conductor,

In the Romantic period, two contradictory trends greatly affected the fantasia: one was the decline of formal improvisation as a test of the compositional technique; the other was the move by composers toward freer forms. Romantic Music is a Musicological term referring to a particular period theory compositional practice and canon in European music history from about 1815 to 1910 Chopin's Fantasy in F minor op. 49, combines various keyboard textures of the stile brillante with the classical sonata paradigm, resulting in a work of unorthodox but sophisticated form. Schumann's numerous 'fantasy pieces' are character works on a smaller scale, often bearing descriptive titles. Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann (June 8 1810 &ndash July 29 1856 was a German Composer, Aesthete and influential Music critic

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