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With humour.
Usually printed in parentheses above a vocal line or a short passage (“(mit Humor)”), marking a moment rather than a whole piece. It lasts for that phrase; the surrounding tempo and character words resume afterwards.
A local hint, common in Lieder, that a line should be delivered with a smile or a wink — a touch of irony, a lighter tone, playful timing. Wolf uses such parenthetical words to steer a singer’s delivery of the text. Use it where the words carry the joke and a performer might otherwise sing them straight; for a whole humorous piece, a heading such as humoristisch or scherzando is clearer.
Wolf, Mörike-Lieder, “Nimmersatte Liebe”, voice, m. 42: “(mit Humor)”, two bars after “(zögernd)”, in a song headed “Sehr mässig”.
Mit Humor is one of 1755 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary: the words, abbreviations and instrument names that appear in printed scores, plus the vocabulary composers use to talk about them.
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