pot-pourri

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | 235 words | Copyright

pot-pourri (Fr. ‘rotten-pot’). Mus. application of this horticultural term is to a medley of tunes strung together without development. R. Strauss called the ov. to his Die schweigsame Frau a ‘pot-pourri’.

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