A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Fancies

FANCIES, or FANTASIES, the old English name for Fantasia, which see. In the various collections catalogued under the head of Virginal Music all three words occur. The name seems to have been confined to original compositions as opposed to those which were written upon a given subject or upon a ground.

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