What's the difference between libretto and wordbook?

Libretto


Definition:

  • (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.

Wordbook


Definition:

  • (n.) A collection of words; a vocabulary; a dictionary; a lexicon.

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