Definition of the Italian term dramma giocoso in music:
- literally "comic drama"
- Italian genre of opera common in the mid-18th century
Variant
dramma giocoso per musica
Italian musical terms related to dramma giocoso:
- azione scenica – literally "stage action"...
- azione teatrale – literally "theatrical action"...
- burla – joke, prank...
- burletta – light comic opera
- commedia in musica – opera buffa (Italian genre of comic opera originat...
- componimento da camera – literally "chamber composition"...
- componimento drammatico – literally "dramatic composition"...
- componimento pastorale – literally "pastoral composition"...
- dramma – drama, play, opera...
- dramma bernesco – literally "burlesque drama"...
- dramma comico – literally "comic drama"...
- dramma eroicomico – literally "heroic-comic drama"...
- dramma lirico – literally "lyric drama"...
- dramma musicale – libretto or text written to be set to music...
- dramma pastorale – literally "pastoral drama"...
- dramma per musica – libretto or text written to be set to music...
- dramma semiserio – literally "semi-serious drama"...
- dramma tragicomico – literally "tragicomic drama"...
- farsa – farce (style of humor characterized by exaggeratio...
- farsetta – farsa (Italian comic opera, typically in one act, ...
- festa teatrale – 18th-century genre of musical theater and opera (u...
- giocoso – playful, jolly
- grand opera – grand opera (genre of 19th-century opera, characte...
- melodramma serio – literally "serious melodrama"...
- musica – music
- opera – opera (genre)...
- opera ballo – literally "dance opera"...
- opera buffa – literally "comic opera"...
- opera da camera – chamber opera (opera written to be performed with ...
- opera eroica – literally "heroic opera"...
- opera semiseria – literally "semi-serious opera"...
- opera seria – literally "serious opera"...
- operetta – operetta (opera of a lighter character, often with...
- pasticcio – pastiche...
- per – for, to, through, by, in order to
- semi-opera – semi-opera
- verismo – verismo (style of Italian opera)
