19世紀に入ると、ピアノの伴奏に合わせて詩を朗読するという室内版メロドラマが人気となり[19]、シューベルト「この世からの別れ」(Abschied von der Erde)、シューマン「美しきヘートヴィヒ」(Schön Hedwig)、リスト「美しき僧侶」(Der traurige Mönch) など名作が多数作られた[20]。また同時期、イタリアではとくにオペラの中で音楽よりも台詞を重視する作曲手法を「メロドランマMelodramma」と呼ぶようになった[17]。
20世紀に入ってからも、ストラヴィンスキー『ペルセフォーヌ』(Perséphone) やウィリアム・ウォルトン『ファサード』(Façade)、リヒャルト・シュトラウス『イノック・アーデン』(Enoch Arden) などがメロドラマの手法を利用しているとされることが多い[18]。中でも傑作とされるのはシェーンベルク『モーゼとアロン』(Moses und Aron) で、ここでは自らの啓示を民衆へ伝えられず苦悶するモーゼの姿が伴奏と朗読で表現されている[18]。
^ abcdGerould, Daniel, ed. (1980) Melodrama. New York Literary Forum 7. New York: New York Literary Forum.; Davis, Jim (2015). "melodrama." The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Actors and Acting, ed. by Simon Williams, Cambridge UP.
^ abGould, Marty (2018) “Melodrama and Empire”, The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama, New York: Cambridge UP.
^Mayer, David (2004) “Encountering Melodrama”, The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre, ed. by Kerry Powell, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, pp. 145–163.
^Nicoll, Allardyce (1959) A History of English Drama, 1660–1900. Vol. 4, Early Nineteenth Century Drama, 1800–1850, 2d ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP.
^Kuhn, Annette and Guy Westwel (2012) “melodrama”, A Dictionary of Film Studies, Oxford UP.
^ abAltman, Rick (1992) “Dickens, Griffith, and Film Theory Today”, Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars, ed. by Jane Gaines, Durham, NC: Duke UP, pp. 9–47.
^Gledhill, Christine et al. eds (1994) Melodrama: Stage, Picture, Screen. London: British Film Institute.
^Landy, Marcia, ed. (1991) Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film and Television Melodrama, Detroit: Wayne State UP.; Mercer, John and Martin Shingler (2004) Melodrama: Genre, Style, Sensibility, New York: Wallflower Pr.
^Mulvey, Laura (1994) “‘It Will Be a Magnificent Obsession’: The Melodrama’s Role in the Development of Contemporary Film Theory”, Melodrama: Stage, Picture, Screen, ed. by Christine Gledhill et al., London: British Film Institute, pp. 121–133.; Neale, Steve (1986) “Melodrama and Tears”, Screen, 27:6, pp. 6-23.
^ abElsaesser, Thomas (1973) “Fire and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama”, Film Genre Reader IV, ed. by Barry Keith Grant, Austin: U. of Texas Pr., 2012.
^Kaplan, E. Ann (1983) “Theories of Melodrama: A Feminist Perspective.” Women in Performance, 1: 40–48. A
^Belau, Linda and Ed Cameron (2016) "Melodrama, Sickness, and Paranoia: Todd Haynes and the Woman's Film", Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television, 46:2, pp. 35-
^ abcdeCox, Philip. "Melodrama, Origin and Development." Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature: The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, Frederick Burwick, et al. eds., 1st ed., Wiley, 2012.
^ abcRandel, Don Michael. "Melodrama." The Harvard Dictionary of Music, 4th ed., Harvard University Press, 2003.
^ abHambridge, Katherine and Jonathan Hicks eds. The Melodramatic Moment : Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790-1820, The University of Chicago Press, 2018
^Kravitt, Edward. "The Joining of Words and Music in Late Romantic Melodrama," MQ 42 (1976): 571–90.
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概説
Brooks, Peter (1995) The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess. Rev. ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.(ピーター・ブルックス『メロドラマ的想像力』四方田犬彦・木村慧子訳、産業図書、2002)
Heilman, Robert (1968) Tragedy and Melodrama: Versions of Experience, Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Kaplan, E. Ann (1992) Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama. New York: Routledge.(E.A.カプラン『母性を読む : メロドラマと大衆文化にみる母親像』水口紀勢子訳、勁草書房、2000)
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Bratton, Jacky, Jim Cook, and Christine Gledhill (1994) Melodrama: Stage, Picture, Screen. London: British Film Institute.
Elsaesser, Thomas (1973) “Fire and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama”, Film Genre Reader IV, ed. by Barry Keith Grant, Austin: U. of Texas Pr., 2012.
Hays, Michael, and Anastasia Nikolopoulou, eds. (1996) Melodrama: The Cultural Emergence of a Genre. New York: St. Martin’s.
Gerould, Daniel C., ed. (1983) American Melodrama. New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications.
Gledhill, Christine, ed. (1987) Home Is Where the Heart Is: Studies in Melodrama and the Woman’s Film. London: British Film Institute.
Gledhill, Christine (1991) “Signs of Melodrama”, Stardom: Industry of Desire, ed. by Christine Gledhill, London: Routledge, pp. 207–232.
Kaplan, E. Ann (1983) “Theories of Melodrama: A Feminist Perspective,” Women in Performance 1, pp. 40–48.
Klinger, Barbara (1994) Melodrama and Meaning: History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Landy, Marcia, ed. (1991) Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film and Television Melodrama. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
Mason, Jeffrey D.(1993) Melodrama and the Myth of America, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Mercer, John and Martin Shingler (2004) Melodrama : genre, style, sensibility, London ; New York : Wallflower.(ジョン・マーサー, マーティン・シングラー『メロドラマ映画を学ぶ : ジャンル・スタイル・感性』中村秀之・河野真理江訳、フィルムアート社 2013)
Neale, Steve. “Melo Talk: On the Meaning and Use of the Term ‘Melodrama’ in the American Trade Press.” The Velvet Light Trap 32 (Fall 1993): 66–89.
Singer, Ben (2001) Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts. New York: Columbia University Press.
Williams, Linda (1998) “Melodrama Revised”, Refiguring American Film Genres: Theory and History, ed. by Nick Browne, 42– 88. Berkeley: University of California Press.