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" An opera is a poetical tale, or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural... "
Iconology, Or, Emblematic Figures Explained in Original Essays on Moral and ... - Sivu 204
tekijä(t) William Pinnock - 1830 - 420 sivua
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First ..., Nide 2

John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 580 sivua
...proper to them ; and from both these, if they are judiciously performed, the delight of poetry results. An Opera is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental and Pope, in one of his letters to Mr. Cromwell, has adopted it. It is however certainly not only no...

The Works of John Dryden,: The duke of Guise, a tragedy. Albion and Albanius ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 462 sivua
...proper to them ; and from both these, if they are judiciously performed, the delight of poetry results. An opera is a poetical tale, or fiction, represented...music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods, and goddesses, and...

The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 460 sivua
...proper to them ; and from both these, if they are judiciously performed, the delight of poetry results. An opera is a poetical tale, or fiction, represented...music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods, and goddesses, and...

Anecdotes of Music, Historical and Biographical: In a Series of ..., Nide 2

Allatson Burgh - 1814 - 524 sivua
...are admirable, and in many respects still applicable to similar exhibitions. " An opera," says he, " is a poetical tale or fiction, " represented by vocal...music, " adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The " supposed persons of this musical drama are gene« *' rally supernatural, as gods and goddesses,...

Analysis of the London ball-room

London ball-room - 1825 - 170 sivua
...incorporated with the opera in this country till long afterwards, yet Dryden had defined an opera to be " a fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dances ;"" and of this department of our drama the earliest and greatest ornament was Grimaldi Nicolini,...

A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Nide 16

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 sivua
...opera, from the Lat. opera. A species of dramatic representation, defined in the extract from Dryden. An opera is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental musick, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. Dryden. You will hear what plays were acted that...

Iconology: Or Emblematic Figures Explained;: In Original Essays on Moral and ...

William Pinnock - 1830 - 576 sivua
...had no rhythm,f because we have no proof that they marked the different length of their notes. 1 8. It is highly probable, that they introduced occasionally...to any motion whatever. This word is distinct from RHYMP,, which signifies an harmonical succession of sounds ; the agreeing of the sounds of words with...

Memoirs of the Musical Drama, Nide 1

George Hogarth - 1838 - 494 sivua
...performance which, in many respects, are of permanent and universal application. "An opera," he says, "is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal...music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods and goddesses, and heroes,...

A Phonographic Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language

William Bolles - 1846 - 700 sivua
...Openness, 6'pn-nes, n. plainness, clearness, freedom from obscurity or ambiguity. Opera, op-fir &, n. a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and...music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. Operate, op-fir-A't. vi. to act, to have agency, to produce effects ; to perform some surgical operation....

Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Nide 45

James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1852 - 814 sivua
...may clearly understand each other's views, you give me your definition of an opera. D. Readily^. ' An opera is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods, goddesses, and heroes....




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