Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A musical or operatic tragedy.
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Examples
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In this respect, as in many others, the 'Orfeo' combines the faults and merits of the Italian attempts at melo-tragedy.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Mozart has written the two melodramas of love -- the one a melo-tragedy, the other a melo-comedy.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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The central figure of the melo-tragedy is Don Juan, the hero of unlimited desire, pursuing the unattainable through tortuous interminable labyrinths, eager in appetite yet never satisfied, 'for ever following and for ever foiled.'
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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In this respect, as in many others, the 'Orfeo' combines the faults and merits of the Italian attempts at melo-tragedy.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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The central figure of the melo-tragedy is Don Juan, the hero of unlimited desire, pursuing the unattainable through tortuous interminable labyrinths, eager in appetite yet never satisfied, 'for ever following and for ever foiled.'
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Mozart has written the two melodramas of love -- the one a melo-tragedy, the other a melo-comedy.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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He says that _Abel_ is neither a tragedy, a comedy, a drama, a tragi-comedy, nor a Greek tragedy, which last would, he thinks, be correctly described as melo-tragedy.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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