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The English Fantasy Suite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1955

Cecily Arnold  and
Marshall Johnson
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The words Fantasy, Fantasia, or Fancy are used infrequently in the earlier manuscripts of English instrumental music. ‘A fansie of Mr. Newman's’ in the Mulliner Book would seem to be about the first appearance, indicating its use in Henry VIII's time; and a ‘phancy’ by Edward Blankes occurs in a manuscript dated 1578. Thereafter the word is found more often, though much of the music is still untitled. The In Nomines, the pieces ‘uppon a plainsong’ or upon part of the gamut, the ‘poyntes’ and the evergreen canons are possibly titled to distinguish them from the general fantasy. Morley presumably includes all but the canon under the heading of Fantasy when describing that form in his Plaine and Easie Introduction of 1597; but the In Nomines had their direct successors in works ‘to a ground’.

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Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 82 , 1955 , pp. 1 - 14
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1955

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