The term”Fantasia” has been used to describe which part of the sonata form?
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By about 1770 most of the specific changes that dictated the shift from Baroque sonata to Classical sonata were firmly established. Through the work of the Neapolitan school of opera led by Domenico Scarlatti’s father, Alessandro, the operatic sinfonia, or overture, had streamlined the traditional sonata da chiesa. It omitted the opening slow movement and abandoned the fugal manner that was the first allegro’s link with the past. In the new three-movement pattern, a minuet sometimes replaced the fast, abstract finale. In other cases, the inclusion of both minuet and finale brought the number of movements back to four. The south German Mannheim school of composers —most notably Johann Wenzel Stamitz and his son Karl—developed the technique of the orchestra, whose resources now provided an ideal laboratory for experimentation with the dramatic effects of tonal contrast.