The Fantasia Connection
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Thomas Morley, in 1597, said of the fantasia, “More art may be shown than in
any other music because the composer may add, diminish, and alter at his pleasure.”
It was a sort of rebellion….by composers who wanted to move beyond standard musical forms and go wherever their imagination took them.
They didn’t use the word “imagination.”
In the next hour, the “fantasy,” or “fantasia,” from its origins in the Renaissance to Mozart, from Beethoven in the 19th century to Rodrigo and Vaughan Williams in the 20th.
