1) Comedy genre 2) Italian musical form 3) Italian musical term 4) Musical term in Rome 5) Musical form term 6) Musical term to an Italian 7) Term regarding musical form
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A burletta (Italian, meaning `little joke`), also sometimes burla or burlettina, is a musical term generally denoting a brief comic Italian (or, later, English) opera. The term was used in the 18th century to denote the comic intermezzos between the acts of an opera seria, but was sometimes given to more extended works; Pergolesi`s La serva pad......
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• (a.) A comic operetta; a music farce.
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Bur·let'ta (bûr*lĕt'tȧ)
noun [ Italian , dim. of
burla mockery. See
Burlesque ,
adjective ]
(Mus.) A comic operetta; a music farce.
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A burletta is a light, comic species of musical drama, which derives its name from the Italian burlare, to jest. It originated in Italy, from whence it passed to the Transalpine countries.
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(in the 18th and 19th centuries) a musical drama containing rhymed lyrics and resembling comic opera or a comic play containing songs.
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