Burlesque/burlesque in Music

Famous quotes containing the words burlesque and/or music:

    “Not until the advent of Impressionism does the repudiation of principles set in which opened the way for the burlesque parade of the fashionable and publicity-crazed modernities of our century.”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    “Let music sound while he doth make his choice;
    Then if he lose he makes a swan-like end,
    Fading in music.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)