Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A comic opera; a musical farce.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A comic operetta; a music farce.
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- noun A
comic operetta ; amusical farce .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"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
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Suppose me, for once, a burletta projector, Who attempts a mock musical scrap of a lecture.
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Oliver Twist: a serio-comic burletta, in four acts.
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Oliver Twist: a serio-comic burletta, in three acts.
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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
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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
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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)
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_ -- First, GOUNOD'S charming burletta of _Philemon et Baucis_.
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Oliver Twist: a serio-comic burletta, in four acts.
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Oliver Twist: a serio-comic burletta, in three acts.
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