Definition of the Italian term dramma per musica in music:
- libretto or text written to be set to music
- opera seria (Italian genre of opera which refers to the noble and serious style opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to around 1770)
Singular
dramma per musica
Variants
drama per musicadramma in musica
Italian musical terms related to dramma per musica:
- 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 giocoso – literally "comic drama"...
- dramma lirico – literally "lyric drama"...
- dramma musicale – libretto or text written to be set to music...
- dramma pastorale – literally "pastoral drama"...
- 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...
- grand opera – grand opera (genre of 19th-century opera, characte...
- in – in, into
- 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)
