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sung-through

sung-through adjective: being entirely sung; featuring no spoken dialogue (except for recitative).

Adjective

sung-through (not comparable)

  1. Being entirely sung; featuring no spoken dialogue (except for recitative).
    • Equally, a sung-through musical can work as a musical theater. Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, for instance, has a story and characters that are absolutely made for its broad sweeping melodies and operatic form.2003 October 30, David Walsh, Len Platt, Musical Theater and American Culture, Praeger
    • Weber was not the only early-Romantic composer to write a sung-through German opera, but it was his that spurred Schumann and Wagner to aim higher.2014 04, The New Yorker

Questions about sung-through

What does sung-through mean?
Sung-through means being entirely sung; featuring no spoken dialogue (except for recitative).
What part of speech is sung-through?
Sung-through is an adjective.

Words near sung-through in the dictionary

  1. sung soprano
  2. sung the praises of
  3. sung the same tune
  4. sung up
  5. Sung-chiang
  6. sung-through
  7. Sung-tzu
  8. sunga
  9. sungah
  10. sungahs
  11. Sungai Penuh

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