mélange

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Busoni is having none of that, and completes the work in his own fashion by changing the effort into an immense mélange of harmonic and contrapuntally related subjects, each pursued independently while woven into a chromatic tapestry of amazing complexity.

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  1. noun A mixture: "[a] building crowned with a mélange of antennae and satellite dishes” (Howard Kaplan).
  2. noun Geology A metamorphic rock formation created from sediments and rocks scraped off the top of a downward-moving tectonic plate in a subduction zone.

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  • Its subject, the Cowley Road, … is a ramshackle, multicultural mélange, the old track through the marshes between Oxford and Cowley village, now home to a mix of races and religions, strung with halal butchers, flotation centers, porn shops and pawn brokers, Chinese herbalists, Caribbean fishmongers, Russian grocers, pubs and mosques. —  The Chicago Blog
  • Often touted as 'the' premiere jazz festival in the Caribbean, the 2008 St. Lucia Jazz Festival produced by BETJ and St. Lucia Tourism offered up a musical mélange that provided something for everyone.
  • Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down was released in August and is an eclectic indie-folk mélange of humor and sheer musicality. —  Columbia Spectator - News, sports, and entertainment coverage for the Morningside Heights community in New York City.
  • That's why it pains me so that the accompanying video has turned out to be a mélange of disparate yet uniformly unfortunate ingredients. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • It's a mélange of friends, foes and overlapping alliances ... and Sonic and his friends are caught in the middle! —  ComicList Headlines
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  1. French, from Old French meslance, from mesler, to mix; see meddle.

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  1. French, a mixture, from mêler, mix: see mell, meddle.
 

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