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Including 55 serious operas, 6 cantatas, 53 comic operas, 17 operettas, 6 sing-spiele, 4 ballets, 4 vaudevilles, 2 oratorios, one each of fares, pastorales, masques, ballads and buffas.
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Origin and Etymology of pastorale
Italian, from pastorale of herdsmen, from Latin pastoralis
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