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# fantasia

«fantasia» in Mova's school dictionary: **a piece of music written freely, following the composer's…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a fantasia, fantasias)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (music) A fantasia is a piece of music written freely, following the composer's imagination rather than a strict pattern. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasia/#m1)

2) A fantasia is also a mixture of well-known tunes played together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasia/#m2)

3) Fantasia is also the name of a 1940 Disney film set to classical music (a name). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasia/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Music lessons (Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on Greensleeves, Fantasia on British Sea Songs at the Proms). Can also mean any dreamlike, imaginative mix. Phrases: fantasia on, a musical fantasia.

### examples

- The orchestra played a fantasia on old sea songs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasia/#x1)
- A fantasia does not follow strict rules. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasia/#x2)
- We listened to Fantasia on Greensleeves in music class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasia/#x3)
- The Proms end with a fantasia of British songs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasia/#x4)
- Disney's «Fantasia» sets cartoons to classical music. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasia/#x5)
- The garden show was a fantasia of colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasia/#x6)

### note

Say «fan-TAY-zee-a» or «fan-ta-ZEE-a». Related to fantasy. Plural fantasias.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fantasia» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasia/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.