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Musically this term is applied to (1) operas where the plot or characters are said to be ‘true to life’ (verismo) as distinct from remote. (2) The attitude which was required by the Communist party bureaucracy from Soviet Union composers, meaning that their mus. should be optimistic, easily comprehended, and ‘of the people’.

(1) operas where the plot or characters are said to be ‘true to life’ (verismo) as distinct from remote. (2) The attitude which was required by the Communist party bureaucracy from Soviet Union composers, meaning that their mus. should be optimistic, easily comprehended, and ‘of the people’

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in The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (3) Length: 379 words
realism
in The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7) Length: 384 words
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in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World Length: 3134 words
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in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3) Length: 176 words

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