melodeclamation
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English
Etymology
From melo- + declamation.
Noun
melodeclamation (countable and uncountable, plural melodeclamations)
- (historical, music) The practice of reciting poetry while accompanied by concert music.
- 2016 June 22, Katerina Levidou, Katy Romanou, George Vlastos, Musical Receptions of Greek Antiquity: From the Romantic Era to Modernism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 22:
- One of these is found in the salon song for voice and piano, which is suddenly invaded by melodeclamations and mythological themes. One of the most prominent contributors here was Vladimir Rebikov (18661920), whose piano cycles […]
- 2010 November 4, Mervyn Cooke, The Hollywood Film Music Reader, Oxford University Press on Demand, →ISBN, page 44:
- When combined with dialogue we get a kind of melodeclamation, and then both dialogue and music are faced with the demands generally presented to melodeclamation, that is to say, coincidence of rhythm, and their artistic symbiosis, […]
- 1996, John N. Kotre, Outliving the Self: How We Live on in Future Generations, John Kotre, →ISBN, page 129:
- Then she found the sheet music for melodeclamation that she had taken from Russia , and that occasioned an explanation of the beauties of Russian diction . " It's a euphonious language — consonant , vowel , consonant , vowel — and I […]
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