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humoresque [ˌhjuːməˈrɛsk] n (Music / Classical Music) a short lively piece of music [from German Humoreske, ultimately from English humour] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In 1959, when he opened Humoresque, a gay coffee shop where the Mattachine Society held clandestine meetings, police officers even harassed him for kickbacks, he says. In the preface, the translator Johann Fischart discusses the word not as a humoresque piece in the tradition of Pliny, but in connection with the image of the Greek satyr Silenus, whose grotesque appearance concealed his internal seriousness. Humoresque on Swanee (concert band), by John Philip Sousa/Keith Brion. |
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