 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...  Dwight's Journal of Music - 50 psl.1878Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 460 psl.
...these, if they are judiciously performed, the delight of poetry results. 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, as gods, and goddesses, and... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 462 psl.
...these, if they are judiciously performed, the delight of poetry results. 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, as gods, and goddesses, and... | |
 | Allatson Burgh - 1814 - 524 psl.
...many respects still applicable to similar exhibitions. " An opera," says he, " 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 gene« *' rally supernatural, as gods and goddesses,... | |
 | London ball-room - 1825 - 170 psl.
...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,... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1830 - 520 psl.
...occasionally the perfect chords of the third, fifth, and eighth,:}: * An OPERA is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. t Metre ; verse ; poetical numbers : also, proportion, applied to any motion whatever. This word is... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1830 - 576 psl.
...occasionally the perfect chords of the third, fifth, and eighth,} * An OPERA is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. t Metre ; verse ; poetical numbers : also, proportion, applied to any motion whatever. This word is... | |
 | George Hogarth - 1838 - 494 psl.
...many respects, are of permanent and universal application. "An opera," he says, "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, as gods and goddesses, and heroes,... | |
 | William Bolles - 1846 - 700 psl.
...n. plainness, clearness, freedom from obscurity or ambiguity. Opera, op-fir &, n. a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental 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.... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1875 - 658 psl.
...Dryden attempts a definition of the species. He there characterises an opera as ' a poetical tale, or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dances,' and adds that ' the persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural. On the other... | |
 | Robert William Lowe - 1891 - 212 psl.
...produc- / tion of operas. An opera is described by Dryden as, strictly speaking, "a poetical tale, or fiction, represented by vocal and.' instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing;" which is very much how we should describe an opera now. But this academical description was not the... | |
| |
