{{Short description|Genre of Romantic music}} {{Other uses}} {{Listen|type=music|filename=Dvořák - Humoresque Op. 101 No. 7.ogg|title=Dvořák's Humoresque, Op. 101, No. 7 |description=Arranged for viola and piano by Elias Goldstein, performed by Elias Goldstein (viola) and Monica Pavel (piano) |filename2=Humoresque 1955 performance.ogg |title2=Humoresque, Op. 10, No. 2 |description2=From Tchaikovsky's ''Morceaux'' (1871), performed by the United States Navy Band Symphony Orchestra in 1955 }} '''Humoresque''' ({{langx|de|Humoreske}}) is a genre of Romantic music characterized by pieces with fanciful humor in the sense of mood rather than wit.<ref name="harvard">{{cite book |last=Randel |first=Don Michael |authorlink=Don Michael Randel |title=The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians |year=1999 |publisher=Belknap Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|isbn=0-674-00978-9 }}</ref>

==Notable examples== Notable examples of the humoresque style are:<!-- chronological --> *Robert Schumann: ''Humoreske'' in B-flat major, Op.&nbsp;20, 1839 *Antonín Dvořák: set of eight ''Humoresques'', Op.&nbsp;101, 1894, of which No.&nbsp;7 in G-flat major is well known.<ref name="harvard" /> *Sergei Rachmaninoff: Humoresque in G major, No. 5 from his ''Morceaux de salon'', Op. 10, 1894 *Jean Sibelius: ''Six Humoresques'', Opp.&nbsp;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|date=September 2023}}

== See also == * Capriccio * Humoresque (literature)

== References == {{Wiktionary|humoresque}} {{Reflist}}

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