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What is a fantasia?

What is a fantasia? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) An unstructured orchestral composition.
  2. Any unstructured work.
  3. A traditional festival with exhibitions of horsemanship among the Maghrebi Berbers.
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Based on Virginia Woolf's glittering fantasia written as a love-letter to Vita Sackville-West, the story covers four hundred years of history.
His choral setting, initially in octaves, with its transposed Dorian mode on G, evolves into a kind of fantasia on the original responsory.
In general, however, the fantasia became a potpourri of themes from operas compiled by virtuoso pianists as display pieces.
The subtitle reminds listeners that the piece, although technically a sonata, is suggestive of a free-flowing, improvised fantasia.
Climbing to the surface, the ad explodes in a fantasia of lurid colour, like a milkshake made from a pair of Jimi Hendrix's trousers.
We can expect the battle for the last remaining dregs of the fossil fuel fantasia to be vicious.

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