Fantasia is an improvisational instrumental work. Composers are free to create according to their own fantasies. Music has the characteristics of fantasy freedom and is full of romance.

? Differences and connections between fantasia and capriccio;

Emotionally, fantasia focuses on inner expression; On the other hand, caprice tends to express charm and emotion.

② In terms of formal structure, fantasia is often longer and bigger than capriccio.

(3) However, because they often penetrate each other, it is difficult to distinguish them.

? The characteristics of fantasia:

According to the development of fantasia and the characteristics of music, it can be divided into the following four types.

Early fantasia is like a prelude, often before fugue. This kind of fantasia is often large-scale and adopts polyphonic structure.

② Fantasies of independent instrumental music attached to other works. The scales of this kind of fantasia are often connected by many contrasting paragraphs, and the speed and tonality of each paragraph are inconsistent.

(3) Opera theme fantasia and folk theme fantasia appeared in the19th century, and they all changed freely according to the ready-made melody theme.

④/Kloc-In the 9th century, fantasia (symphony fantasia) of orchestral title music works also appeared. They often describe specific content, are close to symphonic poems in nature and are more free in form.

? Fantasia masterpiece:

Chopin's fantasy impromptu in c minor

The repertoire of this song means that this song has both the characteristics of fantasy and improvisation. This music uses a complicated trilogy. The first part and the second part are the fast melody of Allegro, which is passionate and shows surging passion. The third part is the reproduction of the first part. But faster and more enthusiastic. When the music calmed down from the climax, the lyrics of the second part and the first sentence of the singing melody appeared again in the bass area. But this is the end. The soft and deep piano sound seems to sink into quiet meditation, leaving people with endless beautiful artistic conception.

(2) Tchaikovsky "Romeo and Juliet Fantasia"

The fantasy overture of Romeo and Juliet was revised in 1869, 1870 and 1880 respectively. This work is one of Tchaikovsky's early masterpieces (when the author was only 29 years old) and one of his most widely circulated works. Tchaikovsky used the technique of focusing on the central figure of tragedy to make music successfully reflect the theme of drama. In the history of music, there are many musical works with the theme of Romeo and Juliet, and Tchaikovsky's Fantasy Overture is one of them.