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Low style [or comedy] was set apart [from high and middle styles in the Classical period]. It appeared in the intermezzi separating the acts of serious opera, in its own realm of popular theater, or as occasional parodies and grotesqueries ... [Daniel] Weber (in 1800) classified comedy as the "non-tragic category." He lists the following types: mimicry, wit, parody, and artful imitations of musical bungling (Ratner, Classic music)