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
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 pasticcio version by Musica Nuova ends with a satirical twist.
From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2012
Poliziano's Canzonet, La pastorella si leva per tempo, is a pasticcio composed of fragments from popular songs in vogue at his day.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
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