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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

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Italian word, now often Englished as " pastiche," formed from pasta,
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paste, for a
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composition in
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music,
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painting or other arts, made up of selections from fragments or imitations of the
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work of other artists, a medley or pot-pourri . The
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term has also been applied to a
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form of musical composition in which selections from various operas, &c., are pieced together to form a consecutive whole,
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special librettos being sometimes written for them .

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