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MUSICAL DRAMA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does musical drama mean?
• MUSICAL DRAMA (noun)
The noun MUSICAL DRAMA has 1 sense:
1. opera in which the musical and dramatic elements are equally important; the music is appropriate to the action
Familiarity information: MUSICAL DRAMA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Opera in which the musical and dramatic elements are equally important; the music is appropriate to the action
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("musical drama" is a kind of...):
opera (a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes)
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