Humoresque

{{Short description|Genre of Romantic music}}

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{{Listen|type=music|filename=Dvořák - Humoresque Op. 101 No. 7.ogg|title=Dvořák's Humoresque, Op. 101, No. 7

|description=Arranged for viola and piano by Elias Goldstein, performed by Elias Goldstein (viola) and Monica Pavel (piano)

|filename2=Humoresque 1955 performance.ogg

|title2=Humoresque, Op. 10, No. 2

|description2=From Tchaikovsky's Morceaux (1871), performed by the United States Navy Band Symphony Orchestra in 1955

}}

Humoresque (or in German, {{lang|de|Humoreske|italic=no}}) is a genre of Romantic music characterized by pieces with fanciful humor in the sense of mood rather than wit.{{cite book |last=Randel |first=Don Michael |authorlink=Don Michael Randel |title=The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians |year=1999 |publisher=Belknap Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|isbn=0-674-00978-9 }}