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Definition of Potpourris
1. potpourri [n] - See also: potpourri
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potpourris
Literary usage of Potpourris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1877)
"1 shuddered; but my longing to see Beethoven won the day; I composed the galops
and potpourris, but I could not bring myself to cast a glance at Beethoven ..."
2. Art Life and Theories of Richard Wagner, Selected from His Writings and by Richard Wagner, Edward Livermore Burlingame, William Foster Apthorp (1875)
"I shuddered ; but my longing to see Beethoven won the day; I composed the galops
and potpourris, but I could not bring myself to cast a glance at Beethoven ..."
3. Art Life and Theories of Richard Wagner: Selected from His Writings and by Richard Wagner, Edward Livermore Burlingame (1904)
"I shuddered ; but my longing to see Beethoven won the day; I composed the galops
and potpourris, but I could not bring myself to cast a glance at Beethoven ..."
4. Life of Richard Wagner by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis (1900)
"Who has once written galops himself, who has had his finger in potpourris, knows
what a pinch can drive us to it when it is a question of drawing near to ..."
5. Complete Musical Analysis: A System Designed to Cultivate the Art of by Alfred John Goodrich (1889)
"Operatic potpourris are numerous and often ingenious in their order of ...
Such Overtures as " Zampa " and " Poet and Peasant" are really potpourris. ..."
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