sung-through
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Being entirely sung; featuring no spoken dialogue (except for recitative).
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."