Thesaurus: melodrama

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1. n. Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, 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 gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
2. n. an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization
3. Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, 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 gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
4. Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment tointensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding inromantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musicalaccompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling orpathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhatdescriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodramain the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
5. n:100 n. an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization