music drama

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | 270 words | Copyright

music drama. Term used by Wagner after Lohengrin to describe his operas in order to emphasize that the mus., dramatic, and scenic elements were on equal terms—a fusion of the arts as Gluck had proposed. Yet the old It. description of opera was dramma per musica.

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