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melodrama
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Definitions ofmelodrama
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- A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
- 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
Example: "the melodrama in the grave digging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio"."
- Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.
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