Potpurri |

French pot-pourri, lit. – mixed dish, all sorts of things

An instrumental piece composed of popular motifs from opera, operetta, ballet, from the melodies of a certain composer, from nar. songs, dances, marches, music. numbers from movies, etc. These melodies do not develop in P., but follow one after another; between departments short links are introduced with melodies, performing modulations and thematic. switching. P. became widespread in the 19th century, they were created for decomp. instr. compositions, most often for estr. and spirit. orchestras. Until the 19th century there were other forms of P. The first music. op., to which this name was applied, is a piece from the 3rd collection of songs, published in 1711 by the French. publisher K. Ballar. This play was a quadlibet from the opening passages of several rural songs. Shortly thereafter, P. took on the form of a sequence of melodies of several. dec. popular songs with a new subtext that unites them, often of a very “free” nature. The earliest instr. P. appeared in France around the middle. 18th century Shortly before the Great French. Revolution gained great fame so-called. “French potpourri” (“Pot-pourri y franOais”), published by the Parisian publisher Bowin and consisting of a number of small pieces based on dance. genres of the time. From the beginning 19th century instr. P. became widespread in Germany and other European countries. countries. The earliest German P.’s samples belong to I. B. Kramer.