extravaganza
extravaganza (from It. ‘stravaganza’). A mus. work which intentionally caricatures conventional procedures, such as Mozart's Ein musikalische Spass (A Musical Joke), and especially a 19th-cent. Eng. form of stage entertainment with mus.
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