Humoresque

Dvořák's Humoresque, Op. 101, No. 7

Arranged for viola and piano by Elias Goldstein, performed by Elias Goldstein (viola) and Monica Pavel (piano)

Humoresque, Op. 10, No. 2

From Tchaikovsky's Morceaux (1871), performed by the United States Navy Band Symphony Orchestra in 1955

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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]

Notable examples

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]}

References

Look up humoresque in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

^ ^a ^b Randel, Don Michael (1999). The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-00978-9.