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Serenade vs Fantasia - What's the difference?

serenade | fantasia |

As a verb serenade

is .

As a noun fantasia is

fantasy.

serenade

English

Noun

(wikipedia serenade) (en noun)
  • a love song that is sung directly to one's love interest, especially one performed below the window of a loved one in the evening
  • (music) an instrumental composition in several movements

    • Verb

  • to sing or play a serenade (for someone)
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/14/england-scotland-international-friendly]
    • The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies, it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.

    fantasia

    English

    Alternative forms

    * phantasia (chiefly dated)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music) An unstructured orchestral composition.
  • Any unstructured work.
  • * 1899 , Israel Zangwill, "They that Walk in Darkness": Ghetto Tragedies (page 289)
    • When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough.
  • * 2003 , Kevin L. O'Brien, Strange Stars & Alien Shadows (page 39)
    • Her art is always with her, clothing her from throat to toes in an indelible fantasia of color and form and myth.
  • A traditional festival with exhibitions of .