Melodrama
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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MELODRAMA Gr.,=song-drama, originally a spoken text with musical background, as in Greek drama. The form was popular in the 18th cent., when its composers included Georg Benda, J. J. Rousseau, and W. A. Mozart, among others. Modern...