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
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Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
"Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile"
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