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FANTASIA (Italian for " fantasy," a causing to be seen, from Greek, 4aivew, to show) , a name in music sometimes loosely used for a composition which has little structural form, and appears to be an improvization; and also for a combination or medley of familiar
original
instruments
Great
Fantasia and Fugue " in A minor , and the " Fantasia cromatica " in D minor . Brahms used the name for his shorter piano pieces. It is also applied to orchestral compositions " not long enough to be called symphonic poems and not formal enough to be called overtures " (Sir C. Hubert Parry, in Grove's Dictionary of Music, ed. Igoe). The Italian word is still used in Tunis, Algeria
The riders fire their guns, throw them and their lances into the air, and catch them again, standing
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