Definition of "fantasias" [fantasias]

• Plural form of fantasia. (noun)

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• "Dictionary of Music "(1776), a fantasia exists only as long as it is being played during composition - once it is written down, or repeated, it ceases to be a" fantasy "and becomes whatever form it now is. consort music, much of it of a whimsical nature or of sweet love, that they called fantasias or fancies."
• "But if the charge of ethnocentrism has little traction in Smith's work, it's because the cast of Smith's fantasias bear no specific resemblance to any real ethnic or religious group."
• "Elsewhere, there were sets based on Purcell's string fantasias, including Colin Matthews's distinctly 20th-century addition to the broken-off 17th-century fragment that is Fantasia XIII; and Machaut, with Birtwistle's 1969 take on his medieval predecessor in Hoquetus David exploring that shrill and punchy sound-world the composer was even then configuring."