Word Meanings - SINGSPIEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dramatic work, partly in dialogue and partly in song, of a kind popular in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century. It was often comic, had modern characters, and patterned its music on folk song with strictly subordinated accompaniment.

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• POPULARIZATION
  The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.
• MODERN
  1. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon. 2. New and common;
• MUSIC HALL
  A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
• PARTLY
  In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly. "I partly believe it." 1 Cor. xi. 18.
• COMICAL
  1. Relating to comedy. They deny it to be tragical because its catastrphe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical. Gay. 2. Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story. "Comical adventures." Dryden. Syn. -- Humorous;
• LATTERLY
  Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period. Latterly Milton was short and thick. Richardson.
• LATTER-DAY SAINT
  A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.
• LATTERKIN
  A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice.
• PATTERN
  A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it. Pattern box, chain, or cylinder , devices, in a loom, for
• MUSICALLY
  In a musical manner.
• MODERNIZATION
  The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.
• SUBORDINATE
  1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward. 2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was
• MUSIC DRAMA
  An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious
• POPULAR
  1. Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections. "Popular states." Bacon. "So the popular vote inclines." Milton. The commonly held in
• COMICRY
  The power of exciting mirth; comicalness. H. Giles.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• MUSICALE
  A social musical party.
• CENTURY
  1. A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. And on it said a century of prayers. Shak. 2. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago. Note: Century, in the reckoning of time, although
• OFTEN
  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
• MUSICOMANIA
  A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties. Dunglison.
• BLATTER
  To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• BLATTEROON
  A senseless babbler or boaster. "I hate such blatteroons." Howell.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• CLATTERINGLY
  With clattering.
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
• INSUBORDINATION
  The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
• SPLATTERDASH
  Uproar. Jamieson.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver