durchkomponiertadj.
/ˌdʊəxkɒmpə(ʊ)ˈnɪət//ˈdʊəxkɒmpə(ʊ)ˌnɪət/ Music.
Of songs, etc.: having a different musical setting for each verse, stanza, or strophe; through-composed.
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1893–7 J. S. Shedlock tr. K. W. J. H. Riemann Dict. Music 209/1 Durchkomponirt (Ger., ‘through-composed’), a term applied to a song, when the different strophes of the poem have each their own melody, and are not, as in the volk-song and simple art-song, sung to one and the same melody.
1957 E. T. Cone in N. Frye Sound & Poetry 10 Schubert..made the decision to renounce the simple quatrains of Goethe's ballad in favor of a durchkomponiert design following the climactic narrative.
1958 Listener 20 Nov. 850/3 Puccini's Girl of the Golden West..is more completely durchkomponiert than his earlier operas.
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