pasticcio
Americannoun
plural
pasticciEtymology
Origin of pasticcio
1700–10; < Italian < Vulgar Latin pastīcium pasty, pie, derivative of Late Latin pasta; see paste
Example Sentences
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Bringing the nearly forgotten pasticcio form back to life was the idea of Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Met, who enlisted Jeremy Sams to devise the work.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2014
Ms. Graham said that she was delighted that the flexibility of the pasticcio form would allow her to sing Handel at the Met for the first time.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2014
A pasticcio, recycling music from Vivaldi's earlier operas and those of his contemporaries, L'Oracolo in Messenia was first performed in 1738, and revised four years later.
From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2012
Photograph: Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images First performed in Venice in 1732, L'Oracolo in Messenia is a pasticcio – a work assembled from existing music, not all of it, in this instance, Vivaldi's own.
From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2012
The preface is a piratical pasticcio; the verbose notes are from the most accessible books; the portraits, very unequal in point of execution, I believe to be chiefly copies of prints—not d'apr�s des tableaux originaux.
From Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
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