| 释义 |
melo-ˈtragedy rare.
[f. Gr. µέλο-ς song + tragedy.]
A tragedy in which songs occur; an operatic tragedy.
Alfieri called his play of Abel a ‘tramelogedia’, inserting melo- in the middle of tragedia, to express the intimate mixture of the lyric and dramatic element in the piece.
1818Hobhouse Hist. Illustr. Ch. Har. etc. (ed. 2) 402 He [Alfieri] composed a sort of drama, altogether new, which he called a melo-tragedy. 1905Westm. Gaz. 7 Mar. 2/3 Michael Faraday, according to tradition, would leave his investigations at the sound of the pan-pipes and see the melo-tragedy [Punch and Judy] once more.
Hence meloˈtragic a.
1872C. King Mountain. Sierra Nev. ix. 193 Nothing more effectually banishes a melotragic state of mind, than the obtrusive ugliness..of this plant. |