Humoresque
For other uses, see Humoresque (disambiguation).
Humoresque (or in German, Humoreske) is a genre of Romantic music characterized by pieces with fanciful humor in the sense of mood rather than wit.[1]
Arranged for viola and piano by Elias Goldstein, performed by Elias Goldstein (viola) and Monica Pavel (piano)
From Tchaikovsky's Morceaux (1871), performed by the United States Navy Band Symphony Orchestra in 1955
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Notable examples of the humoresque style are:
- Robert Schumann: Humoreske in B-flat major, Op. 20, 1839
- Antonín Dvořák: set of eight Humoresques, Op. 101, 1894, of which No. 7 in G-flat major is well known.[1]
- Sergei Rachmaninoff: Humoresque in G major, No. 5 from his Morceaux de salon, Op. 10, 1894
- Jean Sibelius: Six Humoresques, Opp. 87 & 89, 1917 to 1918
- Noel Rawsthorne: Hornpipe Humoresque for organ, based on The Sailor's Hornpipe and including parts of "Rule, Britannia!" and the Toccata from Widor's Symphony for Organ No. 5[citation needed]
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- Randel, Don Michael (1999). The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-00978-9.
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