Edvard Grieg used this genre to label pieces called Scenes from Country Life. A “lyric” type of this genre subtitles Carl Nielsen’s cantata Springtime in Funen. Two opus numbers unusually split Sibelius’s suite of six short pieces in this genre for violin and orchestra. The melody [read slowly] F-sharp G-sharp A G-sharp A begins the lyrical, F-sharp minor B-section of a piano piece in this genre, which begins with a skipping rhythm in the enharmonic parallel major. An unusually sprawling, multi-movement B-flat major piano work in this genre ends with an allegro movement titled “To the Resolution” and is by Robert Schumann. A frequently transcribed G-flat major piece in this genre is the seventh of eight pieces in this genre by Antonín Dvořák based on themes written in New York. For 10 points, name this Romantic genre often used for short pieces that feature wit and comedy. ■END■
ANSWER: humoresque [or Humoreske; accept Humoresques or Humoresky; accept Humoreske in B-flat major; accept Six Humoresques; accept lyric humoresque or lyrical humoresque]
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