mélodrame (English spelling)

Japanese: mélodrame(英語表記)melodrame
mélodrame (English spelling)

…The English word melodrama is a borrowing from the French mélodrame, and is said to have first been used by JJ Rousseau in his Pygmalion (1775) to describe a type of play in which the characters' entrances and exits are accompanied by musical accompaniment (note that melo- can be traced back to melos, the Greek word for song). In other words, the word originally referred to the form of a play that includes music, rather than its content. However, as we will see below, over the course of time, the meaning of the word has gradually come to be determined by the content of the play, rather than the form. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "mélodrame" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…英語のmelodramaという言葉は,フランス語mélodrame(メロドラム)の借入であり,J.J.ルソーが自作の《ピグマリオン》(1775)のなかで,人物の出入りに〈音楽の伴奏〉が入る形式の劇をそう呼んだのが初めとされる(なおmélo‐はギリシア語で〈歌〉を意味するmelosにさかのぼることができる)。つまり,この言葉はもともと劇の内容よりも,〈音楽入り〉という劇形式を指していたわけであったが,以下に見るように時代の変遷のなかで,しだいに劇形式よりも劇内容が,この言葉の意味を規定するようになっていく。…

※「mélodrame」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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