Declamation - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: declamationDeclamation
The act or art of declaiming rhetorical delivery haranguing loud speaking in public especially the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges as the practice declamation by students...
Declamator
A declaimer...
Declamatory
Pertaining to declamation treated in the manner of a rhetorician as a declamatory theme...
Frothing
Exaggerated declamation rant...
Harangue
A speech addressed to a large public assembly a popular oration a loud address to a multitude in a bad sense a noisy or pompous speech declamation ranting...
VerbarMelisma
A piece of melody a song or tune as opposed to recitative or musical declamation...
Music drama
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...
Rant
To rave in violent high sounding or extravagant language without dignity of thought to be noisy boisterous and bombastic in talk or declamation as a ranting preacher...
Recitative
A species of musical recitation in which the words are delivered in a manner resembling that of ordinary declamation also a piece of music intended for such recitation opposed to melisma...
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