Word Meanings - SINGSPIEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dramatic work, partly in dialogue and partly in song, of a kind popular in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century. It was often comic, had modern characters, and patterned its music on folk song with strictly subordinated accompaniment.

• Musically
  In a musical manner.
• Popularity
  The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at large; good will or favor proceeding from the people; as, the popularity of a law, statesman, or a book.
• LATTERDAYSAINT
  A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.
• Latterly
  Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period.
• Musicalness
  The quality of being musical.
• Popularization
  The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.
• MUSICDRAMA
  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,
• Lattermath
  The latter, or second, mowing; the aftermath.
• Musician
  One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.
• Popularized
  of Popularize
• MUSICHALL
  A place for public musical entertainments; specif. (Eng.), esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
• Accompaniment
  That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
• Modernism
  Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
• Musicomania
  A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties.
• Popularizing
  of Popularize
• Modernist
  One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.
• Popularize
  To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy.

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