Music Drama
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias duets etc the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness musical drama of this character in general It involves the use of a kind of melodious declamation the development of leitmotif great orchestral elaboration and a fusion of poetry music action and scene into an organic whole The term is applied esp to the later works of Wagner ldquoTristan und Isolderdquo ldquoDie Meistersingerrdquo ldquoRheingoldrdquo ldquoWalkuumlrerdquo ldquoSiegfriedrdquo ldquoGoumltterdaumlmmerungrdquo and ldquoParsifalrdquo
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