In the 19th century, it came to refer to a potpourri of themes from operas, but Henry Wood composed one based on British Sea Songs for the 1905 centenary celebration of Trafalgar, and Busoni later used the name in a long piano work based on the final incomplete fugue from Bach's Art of the Fugue.
This musical term first appeared frequently in lute tablature books in the 16th century for works conceived originally for the lute. Froberger wrote polyphonic ones, Zemlinsky's The Mermaid is one for orchestra, and Erik Satie wrote a "serious" one for orchestra called La Belle Excentrique. In the 19th century, it came to refer to a potpourri of themes from operas, but Henry Wood composed one based on British Sea Songs for the 1905 centenary celebration of Trafalgar, and Busoni later used the name in a long piano work based on the final incomplete fugue from Bach's Art of the Fugue. Often given to musical pieces of no fixed form, FTP, name this type of composition one which was written on a theme of Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
This musical term first appeared frequently in lute tablature books in the 16th century for works conceived originally for the lute.
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