 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 462 pages
...the rest, to this present entertainment of an opera. Propriety of thought is that fancy which arises naturally from the subject, or which the poet adapts...or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 460 pages
...the rest, to this present entertainment of an opera. Propriety of thought is that fancy which arises naturally from the subject, or which the poet adapts...or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 824 pages
...opera, from the Lat. opera. A species of dramatic representation, defined in the extract from Dryden. An opera is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental musick, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. Dryden. You will hear what plays were acted that... | |
 | William Pinnock - Emblems - 1830 - 576 pages
...probable, that they introduced occasionally the perfect chords of the third, fifth, and eighth,} * An OPERA is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. t Metre ; verse ; poetical numbers : also, proportion,... | |
 | William Pinnock - Emblems - 1830 - 520 pages
...probable, that they introduced occasionally the perfect chords of the third, fifth, and eighth,:}: * An OPERA is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. t Metre ; verse ; poetical numbers : also, proportion,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1852 - 814 pages
...may clearly understand each other's views, you give me your definition of an opera. D. Readily^. ' An opera is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods, goddesses, and... | |
 | Wilibald Nagel - Music - 1894 - 482 pages
...er im Vorworte zu „Albion and Albanius", dem „Prologe zu King Arthur", wie er ihn nennt, giebt: An Opera is a poetical Tale or Fiction, represented by Vocal and Instrumental Music, adorned with Scenes, Machines and Dancing. The supposed persons of this musical Drama are generally... | |
 | Lewis Nathaniel Chase - English drama - 1903 - 310 pages
...his own notions on the species which in the same preface he defended against imaginary opponents : " An opera is a poetical tale, or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally... | |
 | Frank Kidson - Ballad opera - 1922 - 142 pages
...then reached London. Dryden gives a useful description of opera as understood in his day. He says: 'An Opera is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1928 - 308 pages
...clearly understand each other's views, you give me your definition of an opera. DRYDEN. Readily. " The opera is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods, goddesses, and... | |
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An opera is a poetical tale, or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural... 
