MarieAnn Nicola wrote:
> What's the definition for through composed melody?
> I haven't a music dictionary, and this is the only place I would think > where people would know what I'm talking about.
This is from my Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, in a definition for "durch" which "through-composed (Ger. durchkomponiert)" referred me to:
"Applied to songs of which the music is different for each stanza of the poem, i.e., the opposite of strophic; but use of the term has been widened to mean a composition which has been 'fully worked out', 'thoroughly composed', as oposed to something that seems episodic or patchy."
I've also seen the term used to describe certain Broadway-style musical theater works such as "Phantom of the Opera", "Les Miserables" or "Miss Saigon".
Peggy
-- Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA "Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile" mailto:peggyh@i...
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