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Definition of Musical drama
1. Noun. Opera in which the musical and dramatic elements are equally important; the music is appropriate to the action.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Musical Drama
Literary usage of Musical drama
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Musical history, biography, and criticism by George Hogarth (1838)
"ORIGIN OF THE musical drama.—STRADELLA.—CARISSIMI. CESTI. SALVATOR ROSA. ...
Both these kinds of musical drama, like theatrical performances of every kind, ..."
2. Memoirs of the Opera in Italy, France, Germany, and England by George Hogarth (1851)
"IN a preceding chapter some account has been given of the musical drama in ...
Such was the situation of the musical drama in Germany for the greater part ..."
3. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline & Fall of the by William Russell, Charles Coote (1822)
"... who had disagreed with the proprietors of the Opera-house or Italian theatre,
brought on the English stage a new species of musical drama, to which he ..."
4. Memoirs of the Opera in Italy, France, Germany, and England by George Hogarth (1851)
"THE musical drama IN FRANCE MYSTERIES QUEEN OF NAVARRE — ITALIAN OPERA BROUGHT INTO
... IN France, as in Italy, the regular musical drama was preceded by ..."
5. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1910)
"CHAPTER XXIII THE SACRED musical drama Stage and Pulpit—Ancient musical drama—Early
Christianity and the Stage—Sacred Plays in the Church—Outside of the ..."
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