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Humour in Music

on BBC Radio 3

Music can often make us laugh in the same way that jokes can. The range of ' musical jokes' is very wide - from the imitation of birds and animals or the setting of funny words, to the subtle and more inherently musical wit that characterises so much of Haydn's work.
RICHARD RASTALL , Lecturer in Music at the University of Leeds, has chosen his examples from all periods of the past 500 years of Western music.

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