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cowpat music

cowpat music
 n.— «He also gives no sign of recognising, or being interested in, the ways in which arcadian ideals influenced later generations of artists, musicians and poets, including the 19th-century Romantics and 20th-century composers of the English pastoral tradition (sometimes disparagingly referred to as “cowpat music”).» —“Orderly frolics in bosky groves” by Virginia Rounding Telegraph (United Kingdom) Jan. 17, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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