Definition of Melodrema
Melodrama, a play consisting of sensational incidents, and arranged
to produce striking effects.
- Wikipedia
Mel`o*dra"ma (?), n. [F.
mélodrame, fr. Gr. me`los song +
dra^ma drama.] 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".
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- 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".
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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