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parody. The only true use of the term applies to the 18th- and 19th-cent. parodies of the popular or most talked-about operas of the day, e.g. that of Wagner's Tristan prod. in Munich 1865 and called Tristanderl und Süssholde. Examples of parodies of one composer by another or of a type of composition are to be found in Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra (where Shostakovich is the target), Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Italian 19th-cent. opera), and Walton's The Bear (various).

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