burletta

"burletta," or to touch a note upon the piano, now and then, in the course of a performance, so as to justify its claim to be a musical entertainment; all subterfuges of this kind ceased.

A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856

Suppose me, for once, a burletta projector, Who attempts a mock musical scrap of a lecture.

A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 Geo. Alex. Stevens 1893

Oliver Twist: a serio-comic burletta, in four acts.

Life of Charles Dickens Marzials, Frank 1887

Oliver Twist: a serio-comic burletta, in three acts.

Life of Charles Dickens Marzials, Frank 1887

With Chatterton's acknowledged writings we have nothing here to do; they include satires in the manner of Churchill, political letters in the manner of Junius, squibs, lampoons, verse epistles, elegies, "African eclogues," a comic burletta, "The Revenge" -- played at Marylebone Gardens shortly after his death -- with essays and sketches in the style that the

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

He had a rare and lovely humor which could amuse itself both in English and Italian with such an airy burletta as "Il Pesceballo"

Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878

He had a rare and lovely humor which could amuse itself both in English and Italian with such an airy burletta as "Il Pesceballo"

Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878

_ -- First, GOUNOD'S charming burletta of _Philemon et Baucis_.

Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 27, 1893 Various 1876

Oliver Twist: a serio-comic burletta, in four acts.

Life of Charles Dickens 1876

Oliver Twist: a serio-comic burletta, in three acts.

Life of Charles Dickens 1876