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  1. In music, instrumental fantasia, often based
  2. on folk melodies, such as Lizst's Hungarian
  3. Rhapsodies 1853-54. In ancient Greece,
  4. rhapsodes were a class of reciters of epic
  5. poems, especially those of Homer, who
  6. performed at festivals. The title means
  7. `stitchers of songs'.
  8.