Word Meanings - MUSICDRAMA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious declamation, the development of leitmotif, great orchestral elaboration, and a fusion of poetry, music, action, and scene into an organic whole. The term is applied esp. to the later works of Wagner: "Tristan und Isolde," "Die Meistersinger," "Rheingold," "Walküre," "Siegfried," "Götterdämmerung," and "Parsifal."

• Bealed
  of Beal
• Believe
  To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard o
• Bever
  A light repast between meals; a lunch.
• Becomingly
  In a becoming manner.
• Benches
  of Bench
• Generalship
  The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.
• Beefy
  Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy.
• Bequethen
  old p. p. of Bequeath.
• BEDRIGHTBEDRITE
  The duty or privilege of the marriage bed. Shak.
• Beguine
  A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.
• Besmirching
  of Besmirch
• Bestorm
  To storm.
• Bean
  A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.
• Bell bearer
  A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.
• Bewash
  To drench or souse with water.
• Bedash
  To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter.
• Beneaped
  See Neaped.
• Interrupting
  of Interrupt
• Beeswing
  The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.
• Bereft
  of Bereave

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