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ballad opera
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ballad opera
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(Music / Classical Music) an opera consisting of popular tunes to which appropriate words have been set, interspersed with spoken dialogue


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Scholars of English and literature, music, and law from Europe and North America explore his writings, including his ballad operas, poetry, political journalism, social pamphlets, and novels Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, and Amelia.
Seventeenth century ballad operas took the idea of grand Italian opera but made them accessible to ordinary folk by setting the lyrics to popular broadsheet ballads, opera arias, church hymns and folk tunes of the day.
18) But ballad operas of this kind remained in the repertoire for a relatively short time, the most popular and long-lived being reduced to afterpieces for use at the end of the evening's entertainment.
 
 
 
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