MELODRAMA

Melodrama

a classic melodramatic film series]]The term melodrama refers to a dramatic work that puts characters in a lot of danger 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 based around having the same character in every scene, often a hero, a heroine, a villain, and the villain's sidekick . 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. The term originated from the early 19th-century French word mélodrame, which ...

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melodrama

Noun

  1. A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
  2. 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".
  3. Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.


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