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PASTICCIO

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 894 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PASTICCIO , an See also:

ITALIAN

Italian word, now often Englished as " pastiche," formed from pasta, See also:

PASTE (O. Fr. paste, modern pate, Late Lat. pasta, whence also in Span., Port. and Ital., from Gr. 1r&vrrl or 1raara, barley porridge, or salted pottage, ir&ao'ety, to sprinkle with salt)

paste, for a See also:

composition in See also:

MUSIC

music, See also:

PAINTING

painting or other arts, made up of selections from fragments or imitations of the See also:

WORK

work of other artists, a medley or pot-pourri . The See also:

TERM

term has also been applied to a See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of musical composition in which selections from various operas, &c., are pieced together to form a consecutive whole, See also:

SPECIAL

special librettos being sometimes written for them .

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