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Melodrama

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(n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Melodrama'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/melodrama.html. 1828.
 
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