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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 padrona'' was designated a 'burletta' at its London premiere in 1750. In England the term began to be used, in contrast to burlesque, for works that satirized opera but without using musical parody. Burlettas in English began to appear in the 1760s, the earliest identified being ''Midas'' by Kane O'Hara, first performed privately in 1760 near Belfast, and produced at Covent Garden in 1764. The form became debased when the term 'burletta' began to be used for English comic or ballad operas, as a way of evading the monopoly on "legitimate drama"〔Meaning spoken plays, rather than opera, dance, concerts, or plays with music ()〕 in London belonging to Covent Garden and Drury Lane. After repeal of the 1737 Licensing Act in 1843, use of the term declined. The word 'burletta' has also been used for scherzo-like instrumental music by composers including Max Reger and Bartók. In America, the word has sometimes been used as an alternative for burlesque. == List of burlettas == * ''Midas'' by Kane O'Hara (privately near Belfast, 1760, Dublin, 1762) * ''Orpheus'' by François-Hippolyte Barthélémon (London, 1767) * ''The judgement of Paris'' by Barthélémon (London, 1768) * ''The Recruiting Serjeant'' by Charles Dibdin (London, 1770) * ''The Portrait'' by Samuel Arnold (1770) * ''The Portrait'' by Barthélémon (Dublin, c. 1771) * ''The Golden Pippin'' by John Abraham Fisher (1773) * ''Poor Vulcan'' by Dibdin (1778) * The third movement of Béla Bartók's ''sixth string quartet (1939) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「burletta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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