caa a22 4500 386327548 CHVBK 20180307111658.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0954586700002913 doi S0954586700002913 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0954586700002913 Dahlhaus Carl What is a musical drama? [Elektronische Daten] [Carl Dahlhaus] ‘Dramaturgy' is one of those vogue words to which frequent use lends the appearance of being increasingly well understood, whereas the wear and tear to which it is subjected actually makes it ever harder to understand. When a word has lost almost all meaning through overuse, the simplest way to make it usable again is, of course, to try to restore its original meaning. It should be possible to agree that dramaturgy is the composition of dramas tout court, and there can be no serious objection if that basic definition is understood to include the theories and principles of dramatic composition (as Lessing did in his Hamburgische Dramaturgie). In that sense ‘dramaturgy' is to drama what ‘poetics' is to poetry: it denotes the essential nature of the categories that form the basis of a drama and can be reconstructed in a dramatic theory. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Cambridge Opera Journal Cambridge University Press 1/2(1989-07), 95-111 0954-5867 1:2<95 1989 1 OPR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954586700002913 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954586700002913 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dahlhaus Carl NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cambridge Opera Journal Cambridge University Press 1/2(1989-07), 95-111 0954-5867 1:2<95 1989 1 OPR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge