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Definition of Singspiels
1. singspiel [n] - See also: singspiel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Singspiels
Literary usage of Singspiels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. War Letters of a Public-school Boy by Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones, Paul Jones (1918)
"(The well-known Gilbert and Sullivan operettas are really singspiels in a lesser
vform. ... In the average French or Italian opera, or in the singspiels, ..."
2. The Rise and Development of Opera: Embracing a Comparative View of the Art by Joseph Goddard (1912)
"Haydn wrote several small operas for the court of Esterhazy which were virtually
singspiels, and Weber considered that in " Die Ent- fiihrung" (1782), ..."
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