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A fantasia is a piece of music that does not follow a tight, regular plan.
A fantasia isFantasia 是 a piece of music that does not follow a tight, regular plan一首不照嚴謹、規律架構走的曲子。
A sonata has a shape listeners can wait for; a fantasia is freer, as if the player is following a feeling or a picture in the mind rather than a fixed map.
A sonata has a shape listeners can wait for;奏鳴曲有一個聽眾可以預期的架構 a fantasia is freer,而 fantasia 比較自由 as if the player is following a feeling or a picture in the mind rather than a fixed map好像演奏者是跟著一種感覺、或腦中的一幅畫面走，而不是照著固定的地圖。
Composers have written fantasias for piano, for strings, and for whole orchestras, sometimes taking an old tune and letting it wander.
Composers have written fantasias作曲家寫過 fantasia for piano, for strings, and for whole orchestras,寫給鋼琴、寫給弦樂，也寫給整個管弦樂團 sometimes taking an old tune and letting it wander有時候會拿一段老旋律，讓它自由發展。
The word belongs mainly to concert music — though actually, some people also use it for a show that feels like a dream, because the old idea of “imagination” sits underneath. It is not the everyday word for a ; that word is fantasy.
The word belongs mainly to concert music這個字主要是屬於古典音樂會的用語 — though actually, some people also use it for a show that feels like a dream,不過其實有些人也會拿它來形容一場感覺很夢幻的表演 because the old idea of “imagination” sits underneath因為底下還藏著「想像」這個舊有的概念。It is not它不是 the everyday word for a daydream;日常用來講「白日夢」的字 that word is fantasy那個字是 fantasy。
組成Borrowed from Italian fantasia, “imagination” or a free kind of song; that came from Latin phantasia, and before that from Greek. The same old source also gave English fancy and fantasy (they are doublets).
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Fantasianame
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A surname from Italian.
fantasianoun/fænˈteɪ.zɪ.ə/
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics; specifically, one combining a number of well-known musical pieces.
- The Fantasia, by Mr. [Pio] Cianchettini, is upon [Gioachino] Rossini's air "Tu che accendi," so often made the theme of piano forte lessons. […] Mr. Cianchettini's imagination is very vivid and full, and we know of nothing more florid or requiring lighter and more delicate touching than this Fantasia.
- Miss [Eleanor Margaret] Geary is a brilliant pianiste, who make light of the modern difficulties set down for the instrument: her performance of [Theodor] Döhler's Anna Bolena fantasia was achieved without apparent effort, and won considerable applause; […] Miss E[lizabeth] Geary is a vocalist, possessing a sweet and flexible voice, […] this young lady also played a fantasia on the concertina very adroitly.
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artartsAny work which is unstructured or comprises other works of different genres or styles.
- It is, however, a ceremony of immense antiquity, and the chief civil festival of the year among the Arabs, who love nothing more dearly than a "phantasia" of this sort.
- When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough.
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A traditional festival of the inhabitants of the Maghreb (in northwest Africa) featuring exhibitions of horsemanship.
- As for the wonderful feats of horsemanship one hears of or sees among the Arabs, they are due to sharp spurs like razors, and to bits strong enough to break an animal's jaw. […] The favourite feat at their fantasias or fêtes of suddenly pulling up their horses short while at a hand-gallop, ruins their legs, and there is in consequence scarcely a horse to be seen whose hind-legs are not spavined.
- These fantasias consist of sham fights, the men riding at full gallop at one another, and firing as they pass; the play might have ended more seriously than was intended, for one Spahi had unknowingly a ball in his rifle, which whizzed close to his enemy's head, but the man never winced, or took any more notice than if it had been blank cartridge, and the fantasia continued as before.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。