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Music drama

• () 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, Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung, and Parsifal.

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