The term pasticcio (pastry, in Italian) was sometimes used pejoratively until the second half of the 18th century, when the genre gained respect. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 1 in F major (KV 37) was completed in April of 1767, when Mozart was 11 years old. This concerto is a "pasticcio" arrangement for piano and orchestra by Mozart and his dad, based on works by other composers. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Philippines to continue using 'coconet' to battle erosion] Reference
After his return to London in October or November, apparently recovered, he was employed by Heidegger, at the King's Theatre, and produced the operas Faramondo, Alessandro Severo a pasticcio, and Serse. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
Except for the Veneto (where lasagne refers to what the rest of Italy calls tagliatelle), these are large sheets of pasta used to make the layered pasta dish by the same name (except again in the Veneto where it is called pasticcio). From Wordnik.com. [How To Cook Italian] Reference
This misleading pasticcio may now be rejected without hesitation. From Wordnik.com. [The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete] Reference
In the following year he produced 'Piramo e Tisbe,' a pasticcio, which failed completely. From Wordnik.com. [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference
This was a pasticcio, called "Mandane," another name for Metastasio's drama of "Artaserse.". From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
A most shabby pasticcio called the "Beggar's Opera," was the immediate cause of his downfall. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
His masses were pasticcio work made up of pieces selected from his operas and other compositions. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Italian and French Composers]
The short pasticcio of the battle referred to in the letter to n the letter to Barton, 22 Sept. 1842. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1] Reference
“Pyramus and Thisbe,” was a pasticcio opera, in which he embodied the best bits out of his previous works. From Wordnik.com. [The Great German Composers]
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 Wordnik.com. [The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties] Reference
What did it matter if the work were a spurious thing, a pasticcio, a poor victim which had been pulled this way and that, changed, cut, added to?. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of Ambition] Reference
Carlyle has shewn great sagacity in guessing at the localities from the vague descriptions of contemporaries: and his short pasticcio of the battle is the best I have seen. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1] Reference
The previous Italian operas had been works of little distinction, and some of them had even been pasticcio operas, as they were called, put together from songs by various composers. From Wordnik.com. [Handel] Reference
Carl Raymond will lead this class on making a delicious Greek meal, complete with tzatziki with fennel, blue cheese and tomato spread, avgolemono soup, pasticcio, chicken with tomatoes and fresh feta, and an almond and yogurt cake with honey syrup. From Wordnik.com. [Serious Eats: New York] Reference
The distinguished pianist, in further pleasant gossip about Cherubini, tells us of hearing the first performance of a pasticcio opera, composed by Cherubini, Paer, Berton, Boieldieu, and Kreutzer, in honor of the christening of the Duke of Bordeaux. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Italian and French Composers]
The favourite form of entertainment in these degraded times was the pasticcio, a hybrid production composed of a selection of songs from various popular operas, often by three or four different composers, strung together regardless of rhyme or reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference
Its next presentation, "Amor & Psyche," is a comic pasticcio drawing on the myth of the mortal Psyche’s romance with Cupid, using music by a gallery of Baroque opera composers assembled into something new, short and whimsical, the presenters promise. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
For several years after the subscription of the nobility had been exhausted, our composer, having invested L10,000 of his own in the Haymarket, produced operas with remarkable affluence, some of them pasticcio works, composed of all sorts of airs, in which the singers could give their bravura songs. From Wordnik.com. [The Great German Composers]
Our operas begin to-morrow with a pasticcio, full of most of my favourite songs: the Fumagalli has disappointed us; she had received an hundred ducats, and then wrote word that she had spent them, and was afraid of coming through the Spanish quarters; but if they would send her an hundred more, she would come next year. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
He tried to persuade the management to give Mozart's opera instead, and, failing in that, had the malicious satisfaction of helping to turn the work of Bertati and Gazzaniga into a sort of literary and musical pasticcio, inserting portions of his own paraphrase of Bertati's book in place of the original scenes and preparing occasion for the insertion of musical pieces by Sarti, Frederici, and Guglielmi. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music] Reference
At the other end of the spectrum one of New York’s shoestring opera companies — OPERA FEROCE — presents a modest “pasticcio” performance. pasticcio describes a hodgepodge of musical numbers by sundry composers, a common form in the late 1600s and 1700s. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Stamatiades served a Greek specialty, pasticcio. From Wordnik.com. [Queens Gazette] Reference
Alan Hollinghurst: Sissiness Che pasticcio!. From Wordnik.com. [London Review of Books] Reference
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