Margaret Mikulska <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>pabulum

What a wonderful word!  I'm loathe to spoil it by looking up the meaning.
Let's see ....

Is it a rare meat mentioned in "Carmina Burana"? Or perhaps Poliuto's best
friend in Donizetti's opera?

No. On third thoughts, it's certainly a long, unaccompanied choral work by
Arvo Part.

Christopher Webber,  Blackheath, London,  UK.
http://www.nashwan.demon.co.uk/zarzuela.htm
"ZARZUELA!"