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humoresque
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n. (context music English) A composition that is playful in attitude and tone.
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Humoresque (or Humoreske) is a genre of romantic music characterized by pieces with fanciful humor in the sense of mood rather than wit. The name refers to the German term Humoreske, which was given from the 1800s (decade) onward to humorous tales.
Notable examples of the humoresque style are Schumann's Humoreske in B-flat major ( Op. 20, 1839), and Dvořák's set of eight Humoresques (Op. 101, 1894), of which No. 7 in G-flat major is well known.
Humoresque is a 1946 American film noir drama by Warner Bros. starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield in an older woman/younger man tale about a violinist and his patroness. The screenplay by Clifford Odets and Zachary Gold was based upon a story Humoresque in a collection of stories entitled Humoresque: A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It (1920) by Fannie Hurst. Humoresque was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Jerry Wald.
Humoresque (1920) is an American silent film drama produced by Cosmopolitan Productions, released by Famous Players-Lasky and Paramount Pictures, and was directed by Frank Borzage from a short story by Fannie Hurst and script or scenario by Frances Marion.
This film was the first film to win the Photoplay Medal of Honor, a precursor of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Usage examples of "humoresque".
But think of a lively and humoresque clock that does not tick and takes only an hour to record a day.
We spent the next hour in bed, the rest of the evening reading thepaper and watching the last third of Humoresque on The Movie Channel.