pasticcio
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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
Fabio Biondi conducts the excellent period-instrument orchestra Europa Galante in a fiery, vivacious performance of a pasticcio opera that was popular in its day, then forgotten.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2012
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
On one occasion an old man sang quite glibly a tune which was in reality a pasticcio of three separate shanties all known to me.
From The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties by Richard Runciman Terry
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