scenas

There are operatic scenas, dealing with abduction and all sorts of uncomfortable situations, and again youngsters declaim of their somewhat indecorous emotions with gusto and -- let us hope -- a sublime insensibility of all that they imply.

Spirit and Music H. Ernest Hunt

He did not minimize the beauty of contemporary operatic music, but claimed that it consisted merely of a set of conventional arias and scenas, and that the music did not in any way emphasize or illustrate the meaning of the words.

Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson

A private or subscription concert will soon give an opportunity of hearing some of its scenas, quatuors, etc.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

At their house we used to get up 'Il Matrimonio Segreto,' _scenas_ from 'Don Giovanni,' and many other passages from favorite operas; and Adelaide was always our admired _prima donna_; for she, as Fétis says of genius, 'invented forms, imposed them as types, and obliged us not only to acknowledge, but to imitate them.'

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

We had good wine and the choicest company, and these kept us from sleep through numerous scenas and cantos, and if we formed any judgment in the premises we believe we did not express one.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various

The "song-scenas" and acrobatic displays filled her with rapture.

Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

Not to conclude the infinite scenas of the race’s life and toil and happiness and sorrow, but haply that the boards be clear’d from oldest, worst incumbrances, accumulations, and Man resume the eternal play anew, and under happier, freer auspices.

Preface, 1872, To “As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free.” Collect 1892

By advice of Salieri, whom Meyerbeer met in Vienna, he proceeded to Italy to study the cultivation of the voice; for he seems in early life to have clearly recognized how necessary it is for the operatic composer to understand this, though, in after-years, he treated the voice as ruthlessly in many of his most important arias and scenas as he would a brass instrument.

The Great Italian and French Composers Ferris, George T 1878

Eleazar and the Cardinal ( "Hört ich recht?"), and closes with one of the most powerful scenas ever written for tenor ( "Das Todesurtheil sprich"), in which Eleazar welcomes death and hurls defiance at the

The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876

My lady's piano was open, covered with scattered sheets of music and exquisitely-bound collections of scenas and fantasias which no master need have disdained to study.

Lady Audley's Secret 1875