Drama Glossary
Key theatre terms and definitions including related shows.
A play, musical, or opera that has been adapted from a written work.
The lowest female vocal type, generally F3-F5.
The process of examining the pieces of the text/music in order to better understand it.
A long accompanied song for a solo voice.
Not written in any key or mode.
The middle male vocal type, generally A2-A4.
Relating to or denoting a style of European music, art, and architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The lowest male vocal type, generally E2-E4.
A unit of action within a monologue, scene, or written work.
Translates as “beautiful singing”; a popular singing style in Italian opera from the mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries.
The movement and gestures used in staging.