We dined in the open air at Werden; I played fantasiasand Sebastian Bachs on the organ to my heart’s content; then I bathed in the Ruhr, so cool in the evening breeze that it was quite a luxury, and rode quietly back to Saarn.
Three Fantasiasor Caprices for the Pianoforte, op.
True, artists like Parish-Alvars have composed operatic fantasias for the harp, in which there are melodies; but this is rather forced.
In vocal music, in which everything depends on the text, and in fantasias (like The Tempest and Francesca) the form is quite free.
It was this characteristic which made his fantasias so unique and interesting, in spite of their lack of originality of motive, as compositions.
A striking example of this is shown in the fantasias he composed on the different operas, a form of writing which reached its perfection in him.
Of the operatic fantasias there are perhaps a hundred or more.
The Hungarian Rhapsodies, on the other hand, which are still more fantasias on the adopted matter than the operatic transcriptions, continue to be favourites of the virtuosi and the public.
What is more, these fantasias contain much of Liszt's own genius, not to speak of his wonderful pianistic idiom.
There are thirty-six of thesefantasias in all, ranging from Sonnambula and Lucia to the operas of Meyerbeer, Verdi, and Wagner.
In structure they are as artistic as the overtures to such operas as Zampa, Euryanthe, and Tannhaeuser, which likewise are 'practically nothing but fantasias on the operas which they introduce.
With his dexterity on the gamba he also possessed the talent, like many other older virtuosi, of exciting the astonishment and admiration of his hearers by free fantasias and learned modulations.
Cooper's pupil and played the gamba well, since he was able to perform the organ fantasias of his master on that instrument.
The Porson of Bach-scholarship, however, is Wilhelm Rust (grandson of the interesting composer of that name who wrote polyphonic suites and fantasias early in the 19th century).
Spitta as "fantasias in sonata-form," and this admirably expresses the character of these works.
She was only ornamental; a person to be shown off to visitors, and to playfantasias on the drawing-room piano.
My lady's piano was open, covered with scattered sheets of music and exquisitely-bound collections of scenas and fantasias which no master need have disdained to study.
And as I continued to do this these fantasias began to accrete more and more about the figure of Derwent Rose.
From wondering what was wrong with my author I passed away from him altogether, and presently found myself spinning, as it were, fantasias on life in human terms.
Two Fantasiasand Fugues in A minor and C minor (208, p.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fantasias" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
