melodeclamation
melodeclamation noun: the practice of reciting poetry while accompanied by concert music.
Noun
melodeclamation (countable and uncountable, plural melodeclamations)
- The practice of reciting poetry while accompanied by concert music.
- One of these is found in the salon song for voice and piano, which is suddenly invaded by melodeclamations and mythological themes. One of the most prominent contributors here was Vladimir Rebikov (18661920), whose piano cycles[…]2016 June 22, Katerina Levidou, Katy Romanou, George Vlastos, Musical Receptions of Greek Antiquity: From the Romantic Era to Modernism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 22
- When combined with dialogue we get a kind of melodeclamation, and then both dialogue and music are faced with the demands generally presented to melodeclamation, that is to say, coincidence of rhythm, and their artistic symbiosis,[…]2010 November 4, Mervyn Cooke, The Hollywood Film Music Reader, Oxford University Press on Demand, →ISBN, page 44
Forms of melodeclamation
| plural | melodeclamations |
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Origin of melodeclamation
From melo- + declamation.
Questions about melodeclamation
- What does melodeclamation mean?
- Melodeclamation means the practice of reciting poetry while accompanied by concert music.
- What part of speech is melodeclamation?
- Melodeclamation is a noun.
- What is the plural of melodeclamation?
- The plural of melodeclamation is melodeclamations.
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