Pasticcio

One calls pasticcio a composite lyric work of use in the Italian music of the period baroque.

The practice consists in for the type-setter assembling, on a single booklet, airs coming from different operas of which it can, or not, being the author (they can also be new airs, but different type-setters).

The pasticcios were a convenient means to compose a “new” work in a fast way, by using airs preferably having been a great success.

The principle of the pasticcio shocks nowadays; it was not the case at the time. On the one hand, the protection of the royalties practically did not exist. In addition, the operas obsolete that were represented at once; it were generally not printed; as the recording did not exist nor the retransmission, an opera of the last year was so to speak lost. The pasticcio made it possible to give again one second life with this music.

A comparable practice, of France, consisted in manufacturing a Opéra-ballet using independently made up acts of ballet.

Some examples:

  • Rosmira fedele : pasticcio composed by Vivaldi with airs of its composition and type-setters following: Antonio Mazzoni, Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli, Antonio Gaetano Pampani, Girolamo Micheli.

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