sung-through

adjective

Being entirely sung; featuring no spoken dialogue (except for recitative).

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Meanings

adjectivesung-through (not comparable)
  1. not comparableentertainmentBeing entirely sung; featuring no spoken dialogue (except for recitative).

    Weber was not the only early-Romantic composer to write a sung-through German opera, but it was his that spurred Schumann and Wagner to aim higher.

    2014 04, The New Yorker
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    Equally, a sung-through musical can work as a musical theater. Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, for instance, has a story and characters that are absolutely made for its broad sweeping melodies and operatic form.

    2003 October 30, David Walsh, Len Platt, Musical Theater and American Culture, Praeger

    Also known as “pop opera,” the sung-through musical is characterized by having little or no spoken dialogue. Instead, many of these musicals used a technique from traditional opera, called recitative.

    2024 October 10, Jim Patterson, Tim Donahue, A Concise History of Theatre, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 271
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APA

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