A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Burla

BURLA, or BURLESCA, a musical joke or playful composition; J. S. Bach's Partita 3, engraved with his own hand on copper, and published in 1727, contains a Burlesca as the fifth piece. Schumann has a Burla in op. 124. No. 12.

[ W. H. C. ]

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