Melodrama - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition melodrama

Definition :

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 Beethovens ldquoFideliordquo