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3. David Huron, “Music-Engendered Laughter: An Analysis of Humor Devices in PDQ Bach,” In S. Lipscomb, R. Ashley, R. Gjerdingen, & P. Webster (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (Evanston, IL: Causal Productions, 2004): 700−703.
4. The quodlibet has become so ubiquitous in Broadway musicals that the 1999 film South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (itself a parody of musicals) features one as its second act break.
5. Peter B. Kay, “Music and Humor: What’s So Funny?” Music Reference Services Quarterly 10, No. 1 (2006): 49