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noun

pastiche

a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources

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Six example sentences with pastiche, each labelled with its topic.

  • The encore was a pastiche, stitching four folk tunes and a hymn into one continuous ten-minute arrangement.

    Music

  • The score is a pastiche assembled from waltzes, marches and two pop songs, none of them written for the film.

    Movies

  • Victorian music halls loved a pastiche: a dozen borrowed melodies strung together so the audience recognized every second bar.

    History

  • The game's title theme is a pastiche, stitching sea shanties and old marching tunes into one six-minute loop.

    Gaming

  • The arena organist's halftime pastiche wove six college fight songs together so smoothly that fans argued over where each one ended.

    Basketball

  • The convention opened with a pastiche of campaign songs from every decade since the fifties, one chorus from each.

    Politics

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