(n.) A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music.
(n.) The words themselves.
Example Sentences:
(1) I loved my Toshiba Libretto and yearned for a similarly-sized MacBook.
(2) I would like to write a ballet, I’d like to write a libretto, I want to write a musical … I’ve got a lot of other things I’d like to do.” Inspired by a two-minute appearance in James Graham’s election-themed The Vote (the same role Jude Law did on another night, he beams), he’s even keen to get back on stage.
(3) Two years ago, when it was staged in London, Alice Goodman, who wrote the libretto, told the Guardian that the furore had ended her career .
(4) Her libretto told the story of the real-life murder of Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly Jewish American, by Palestinian terrorists on an Italian cruise liner in 1985.
(5) Writing the libretto was the culmination of a spiritual and ethical journey for Goodman.
(6) When Alice Goodman was writing the libretto for The Death of Klinghoffer , she sensed she was creating something extraordinary.
(7) The only hazard to this libretto is that their conflict, which has become an iconic representation of the tension between top-down and organic notions of urbanism, was one in which most contact was indirect.
(8) Potted profile Born 1967 Career Started writing plays in Cork in 1993 and has since authored 17 stage plays, two radio plays, three screenplays, the book for a musical and an opera libretto.
(9) rts.org.uk Curriculum vitae Age 54 Education St Aloysius’ College, Glasgow, University of Glasgow, University College, Oxford Career 1994 co-writer, co-director, Knowing Me, Knowing You 2001 The Armando Iannucci Show, Channel 4 2005 creator, The Thick Of It 2008 wrote libretto for Opera North’s production Skin Deep 2009 film director, In The Loop 2012 creator, Veep 2013 co-writer Alan Partridge, Alpha Papa
(10) Sir Peter's wide vocal repertoire and imaginative range took in the creation of the rough-hewn and tormentedly boy-obsessed Peter Grimes, the modernising of Suffolk and other folk songs, and even a contribution to the libretto for one of Britten's sunnier operas, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(11) When was the last time you witnessed 1,300 wealthy theatergoers totally captivated – not answering their cellphones, not asleep, not talking to their dates – by a libretto written completely in verse?
(12) Proulx went one step further, offering to write the libretto.
(13) But her libretto gave voice to his murderers' motives.
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Definition:
(n.) A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary.
(n.) The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence.
(n.) A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
(n.) Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.
(n.) A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text.
(v. t.) To write in large characters, as in text hand.
Example Sentences:
(1) The IgG index (formula: see text) corrects for the influence of serum protein abnormalities as well as a bloodbrain barrier damage and is, therefore, a better measure for the presence of an IgG elevation in CSF due to IgG synthesis, when compared with other IgG quotients commonly used.
(2) Sara Tomlinson, 45, received a text message from her 16 year old daughter Katie at about 3pm.
(3) It is of particular interest that in this paraprotein the major component is a biantennary complex-type oligosaccharide that lacks a fucose residue and an oligosaccharide with the structure (Formula: see text) exists as one of the most abundant components.
(4) The properties of these tumour-associated "antigens" in the membrane of rat sarcomata are summarized below: [Table: see text]
(5) A text generation produces acceptable German reports.
(6) The “100% Australian-made” text on packaging has been enlarged to appeal to customer patriotism.
(7) It is microcomputer-based, and more easily set up and administered than the drifting-text procedure.
(8) In this connection the question about the contribution of each word of length l (l-tuple) to the inhomogeneity of genetic text arises.
(9) She devoured political science texts, took evening classes at Goldsmiths college, and performed at protests and fundraisers, but became disillusioned.
(10) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
(11) Disagreements over the language of the text continued throughout Friday.
(12) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(13) The reaction sequence leading from EAC1-9 to ghosts can be summarized as follows: formula: (see text).
(14) The O-polysaccharide was found to be a high molecular weight polymer of a repeating pentasaccharide unit composed of D-mannose, D-galactose, L-rhamnose, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose, and 2-acetamido-2,3-dideoxy-3-formamido-D-rhamnose residues (1:1:1:1:1) and had the structure: [formula: see text]
(15) Patterns of change and variability in text recall performance were assessed in seven elderly women by testing them weekly for up to 2 years.
(16) Ensuring residents have multiple ways to pay (such as via a text message or through a smartphone app) will also be important as they offer residents the control they feel they have with cash and can be used to top up a direct debit.
(17) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
(18) Usually the condition for quasi-equilibrium is expressed in terms of the rate constants around EHR: (formula: see text) i.e.
(19) Subjects read text passages and occasionally responded to lexical-decision probes.
(20) Purified U3B RNA was subjected to various enzymatic digestion procedures, including digests of 32P-labeled U3B RNA, RNA ligase, and polynucleotide kinase labeling, for determination of its primary sequence which is: (formula: see text).