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Definisjon av melodrama

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Noun
melodrama - an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization
comedy light and humorous drama with a happy ending
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Substantiv
melodrama - 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 grave digging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
melodrama - Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.

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  • The term melodrama refers to a dramatic work which exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions. It may also refer to the genre which includes such works, or to language, behavior, or events which resemble them. It is also used in scholarly and historical musical contexts to refer to dramas of the 18th and 19th centuries in which orchestral music or song was used to accompany the action.

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  • Entall: melodrama
  • Flertall: melodramas

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