music theatre
music theatre. A type of comp., sometimes quasi-operatic but more usually a concert piece, for which a semi-staged presentation is necessary. It developed after about 1950, esp. in USA and Ger. An Eng. example is Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King. In some examples of the genre, the visual and dramatic elements dominate the musical factors.
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