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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.— The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.
"-E 732) An admirer of Lady Sophia Fermor.-D 733) This was a pasticcio, called "Mandane," another name for Metastasio's drama of "Artaserse.— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
- D. (733) This was a pasticcio, called "Mandane," another name for— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
Vauxhall, was afterwards used in the pasticcio opera of _Love in a— Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
A most shabby _pasticcio_ called the "Beggar's Opera," was the immediate cause of his downfall.— A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present

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