melodraman.

Brit.

/ˈmɛləˌdrɑːmə/, U.S.

/ˈmɛləˌdrɑmə/

Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian melodramma.

Etymology: < Italian melodramma (late 17th cent., although in Italian usually simply in sense ‘opera’), with alteration of the second element after drama n.; the writer in quot. 1802 at sense 1a clearly regards the word as ultimately of French origin, but is mistaken as to its etymology. Compare Spanish melodrama (1734). Compare melodrame n.Italian melodramma usually has simply the sense ‘opera’. French mélodrame (1768), German Melodram, Melodrama (1742) and English melodrama all also show the spec. musical sense denoting a piece or passage in which dialogue is spoken over a musical accompaniment, but it is uncertain from what date: Arnaud's Essai sur le Mélodrame (1768) which is often taken to show this sense in French in fact seems to use the word only to denote Italian opera as opposed to French. The earliest composition of this type is usually accepted to be Rousseau's Pygmalion (1762), but Rousseau's term for his composition was scène lyrique, and when he uses the term mélodrame elsewhere in his writings it is only to denote Italian opera. Many of the early uses denoting English stage entertainments perhaps arise rather as names for popular entertainments approximating more or less to the style of the Italian opera than from the spec. use of the term in music (the Italian word occurs denoting operas performed in London theatres from c1727): compare use of French mélodrame from 1788 to denote a type of incident-filled popular drama. N.E.D. (1906) also indicates the stress as meloˈdrama.

a. A genre comprising any of the types of melodramatic work, esp. exciting by exaggeration and sensationalism, and often (chiefly in earlier use) accompanied by music appropriate to the action; the style of drama characteristic of such a piece.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > melodrama

melodrama1789

melodrame?1795

mellerdrammer1844

meller1915

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > melodrama > melodramatic incidents

melodrama1789

melodrame1814

1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music IV. 561 Such was the progress of the melo-drama in Italy, when Nicolò Jomelli began to flourish.

1802 H. Harris Let. 7 Aug. in F. Reynolds Life & Times (1826) II. xviii. 346 At Le Port St. Martin, an entirely novel species of entertainment is performed; called melodrama—mixing, as the name implies (mêler drame) the drama, and ballêt of action.

1814 New Brit. Theatre I. 216 In tragedy and comedy the final event is the effect of the moral operations of the different characters, but in the melo-drama the catastrophe is the physical result of mechanical stratagem.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxx. 300 This Mr. Crummles did in the highest style of melo-drama.

1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 249/1 Perhaps..we may be justified in giving the name of Opera to those pieces in which the Music is the chief attraction, and that of Melodrama, to those in which the predominating interest is centred on the Dialogue.

1889 D. Hannay Life F. Marryat viii. 122 Amine [in The Phantom Ship] is a very acceptable heroine of melodrama.

1902 Daily Chron. 22 Aug. 8/7 Melodrama thrives solely upon exaggeration.

1965 N. Frye in C. F. Klinck Lit. Hist. Canada 838 The language of melodrama, at once violent and morally conventional, is the appropriate language for this.

1992 Amer. Film Jan. 18 Melodrama is perhaps the most maligned film genre, and the hardest one to direct.

b. Originally: a stage play, usually romantic and sensational in plot, and interspersed with songs, in which the action is accompanied by orchestral music appropriate to the various situations (now historical). Later (as the musical element ceased to be regarded as essential): a play, film, or other dramatic piece characterized by exaggerated characters and a sensational plot intended to appeal to the emotions.Also in Music: a dramatic work, or a part of one, in which the dialogue is spoken over a musical accompaniment.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a melodrama

melodrame?1795

melodrama1804

sensation drama1858

Guignol1882

melo1889

drama1895

Grand Guignol1905

1804 T. J. Dibdin (title) Valentine and Orson, a romantic melo-drama, etc.

1805 (title) The forty thieves; to be performed as a grand melodrama at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, under the direction of R. B. Sheridan.

1818 C. E. Walker Sigesmar the Switzer Pref. The following trifle was written two years back, during the rage for Melo-dramas.

1836 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 423 It [sc. a ‘comedietta’] is one of those tissues of domestic calamities..which..were a few years since denominated melodramas.

1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 454/3 It is a cheap sensational melodrama, containing erroneous views of English and university life.

a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. xv. 257 I'll try to get together some simple slop. Perhaps a melodrama, a good hot one, would go—eh?

1939 Fortune Oct. 116 b/1 The progressive climaxes of these inventions, moving through a turbulent quarter-century, have all the force of a four-act melodrama.

1980 New Grove Dict. Music XII. 116/1 Although there is good reason for dating the invention of the melodrama to J.–J. Rousseau's Pygmalion, probably written in 1762, J. E. Eberlin used the speaking voice against a musical accompaniment in his Latin drama Sigismund (Salzburg, 1753).

1992 Empire Apr. 82/4 (caption) A murky, macho melodrama that benefits from the boys playing off their screen images.

2. More generally: any sensational incident, series of events, story, etc.; sensationalist or emotionally exaggerated behaviour or language; lurid excitement.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [noun] > outward exhibition > melodramatic behaviour or occurrences

tragedizing1752

melodrama1814

melodrame1814

soap opera1944

1814 R. Wilson Private Diary (1861) II. 306 The world will approve the catastrophe of the melodrama which metes out signal punishment to Joachim the first in the last act of his life.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xii. 258 She beheld..the old beggar who had made such a capital figure in the melo-drama of the preceding evening.

1854 R. W. Emerson Lett. & Social Aims in Wks. (1906) III. 285 My idea of heaven is that there is no melodrama in it at all.

1891 J. Leckie Life & Relig. 117 Open your eyes and look round you on the strange melodrama of life.

1933 D. Thomas Let. Feb. (1985) 13 The odour of death..lends a little welcome melodrama to the drawing-room tragi-comedy of my..life.

1968 P. Dickinson Skin Deep v. 111 Mr Tinker reacted into ferocious melodrama, swivelling round on the unembroiled Mr Green.

1999 Times 12 May 19/4 The use of such words as ‘excruciating’, ‘hell’ and ‘exhaustion’ suggest to me a..lack of sense of proportion on the writer's part... No purpose is served by resorting to melodrama.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	melodrama
释义	melodraman. Brit. /ˈmɛləˌdrɑːmə/, U.S. /ˈmɛləˌdrɑmə/ Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian melodramma. Etymology: < Italian melodramma (late 17th cent., although in Italian usually simply in sense ‘opera’), with alteration of the second element after drama n.; the writer in quot. 1802 at sense 1a clearly regards the word as ultimately of French origin, but is mistaken as to its etymology. Compare Spanish melodrama (1734). Compare melodrame n.Italian melodramma usually has simply the sense ‘opera’. French mélodrame (1768), German Melodram, Melodrama (1742) and English melodrama all also show the spec. musical sense denoting a piece or passage in which dialogue is spoken over a musical accompaniment, but it is uncertain from what date: Arnaud's Essai sur le Mélodrame (1768) which is often taken to show this sense in French in fact seems to use the word only to denote Italian opera as opposed to French. The earliest composition of this type is usually accepted to be Rousseau's Pygmalion (1762), but Rousseau's term for his composition was scène lyrique, and when he uses the term mélodrame elsewhere in his writings it is only to denote Italian opera. Many of the early uses denoting English stage entertainments perhaps arise rather as names for popular entertainments approximating more or less to the style of the Italian opera than from the spec. use of the term in music (the Italian word occurs denoting operas performed in London theatres from c1727): compare use of French mélodrame from 1788 to denote a type of incident-filled popular drama. N.E.D. (1906) also indicates the stress as meloˈdrama. 1. a. A genre comprising any of the types of melodramatic work, esp. exciting by exaggeration and sensationalism, and often (chiefly in earlier use) accompanied by music appropriate to the action; the style of drama characteristic of such a piece. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > melodrama melodrama1789 melodrame?1795 mellerdrammer1844 meller1915 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > melodrama > melodramatic incidents melodrama1789 melodrame1814 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music IV. 561 Such was the progress of the melo-drama in Italy, when Nicolò Jomelli began to flourish. 1802 H. Harris Let. 7 Aug. in F. Reynolds Life & Times (1826) II. xviii. 346 At Le Port St. Martin, an entirely novel species of entertainment is performed; called melodrama—mixing, as the name implies (mêler drame) the drama, and ballêt of action. 1814 New Brit. Theatre I. 216 In tragedy and comedy the final event is the effect of the moral operations of the different characters, but in the melo-drama the catastrophe is the physical result of mechanical stratagem. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxx. 300 This Mr. Crummles did in the highest style of melo-drama. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 249/1 Perhaps..we may be justified in giving the name of Opera to those pieces in which the Music is the chief attraction, and that of Melodrama, to those in which the predominating interest is centred on the Dialogue. 1889 D. Hannay Life F. Marryat viii. 122 Amine [in The Phantom Ship] is a very acceptable heroine of melodrama. 1902 Daily Chron. 22 Aug. 8/7 Melodrama thrives solely upon exaggeration. 1965 N. Frye in C. F. Klinck Lit. Hist. Canada 838 The language of melodrama, at once violent and morally conventional, is the appropriate language for this. 1992 Amer. Film Jan. 18 Melodrama is perhaps the most maligned film genre, and the hardest one to direct. b. Originally: a stage play, usually romantic and sensational in plot, and interspersed with songs, in which the action is accompanied by orchestral music appropriate to the various situations (now historical). Later (as the musical element ceased to be regarded as essential): a play, film, or other dramatic piece characterized by exaggerated characters and a sensational plot intended to appeal to the emotions.Also in Music: a dramatic work, or a part of one, in which the dialogue is spoken over a musical accompaniment. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a melodrama melodrame?1795 melodrama1804 sensation drama1858 Guignol1882 melo1889 drama1895 Grand Guignol1905 1804 T. J. Dibdin (title) Valentine and Orson, a romantic melo-drama, etc. 1805 (title) The forty thieves; to be performed as a grand melodrama at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, under the direction of R. B. Sheridan. 1818 C. E. Walker Sigesmar the Switzer Pref. The following trifle was written two years back, during the rage for Melo-dramas. 1836 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 423 It [sc. a ‘comedietta’] is one of those tissues of domestic calamities..which..were a few years since denominated melodramas. 1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 454/3 It is a cheap sensational melodrama, containing erroneous views of English and university life. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. xv. 257 I'll try to get together some simple slop. Perhaps a melodrama, a good hot one, would go—eh? 1939 Fortune Oct. 116 b/1 The progressive climaxes of these inventions, moving through a turbulent quarter-century, have all the force of a four-act melodrama. 1980 New Grove Dict. Music XII. 116/1 Although there is good reason for dating the invention of the melodrama to J.–J. Rousseau's Pygmalion, probably written in 1762, J. E. Eberlin used the speaking voice against a musical accompaniment in his Latin drama Sigismund (Salzburg, 1753). 1992 Empire Apr. 82/4 (caption) A murky, macho melodrama that benefits from the boys playing off their screen images. 2. More generally: any sensational incident, series of events, story, etc.; sensationalist or emotionally exaggerated behaviour or language; lurid excitement. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [noun] > outward exhibition > melodramatic behaviour or occurrences tragedizing1752 melodrama1814 melodrame1814 soap opera1944 1814 R. Wilson Private Diary (1861) II. 306 The world will approve the catastrophe of the melodrama which metes out signal punishment to Joachim the first in the last act of his life. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xii. 258 She beheld..the old beggar who had made such a capital figure in the melo-drama of the preceding evening. 1854 R. W. Emerson Lett. & Social Aims in Wks. (1906) III. 285 My idea of heaven is that there is no melodrama in it at all. 1891 J. Leckie Life & Relig. 117 Open your eyes and look round you on the strange melodrama of life. 1933 D. Thomas Let. Feb. (1985) 13 The odour of death..lends a little welcome melodrama to the drawing-room tragi-comedy of my..life. 1968 P. Dickinson Skin Deep v. 111 Mr Tinker reacted into ferocious melodrama, swivelling round on the unembroiled Mr Green. 1999 Times 12 May 19/4 The use of such words as ‘excruciating’, ‘hell’ and ‘exhaustion’ suggest to me a..lack of sense of proportion on the writer's part... No purpose is served by resorting to melodrama. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1789
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