Masque vs Melodrama - What's the difference?
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(archaic) (in 16th-17th Century England & Europe) A dramatic performance, often performed at court as a royal entertainment, consisting of dancing, dialogue, pantomime and song.
(archaic) Words and music written for a masque.
(archaic) A masquerade.
A facial mask.
(archaic, uncountable) A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
(countable) A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the grave digging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
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(uncountable, figuratively, colloquial) Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.
As nouns the difference between masque and melodrama
is that masque is (in 16th-17th Century England & Europe) A dramatic performance, often performed at court as a royal entertainment, consisting of dancing, dialogue, pantomime and song while melodrama is a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.As a verb masque
is archaic form of lang=en.masque
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(wikipedia masque)Alternative forms
* maskNoun
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