Music theater

Lyric theater
nne Musical theater

Dramatic music

Musical works, often small in scale and primarily of the 20th century, that combine elements of music, drama, and sometimes dance in unconventional ways that result in works distinct from traditional forms. For musical/theatrical productions consisting of musical numbers integrated into a dramatic framework see Musicals. For theatrical productions from around the end of the 18th century that feature a series of songs, dances, and other entertainments without any unifying dramatic element see Revues.

Work cat.: Cage, John. Theatre piece.
Web. 3 (lyric theater: a theatrical production involving music)
Grove music online, February 14, 2022: Music theatre (A term often used to characterize a kind of opera and opera production in which spectacle and dramatic impact are emphasized over purely musical factors. It was first used specifically in the 1960s to describe the small-scale musico-dramatic works by composers of the postwar generations that proliferated in western Europe and North America during that decade; 'Music theatre' became an umbrella term covering works ranging from those that were in effect chamber operas, demanding traditional vocal techniques and a high degree of virtuosity in performance, to pieces such as Stockhausen's Herbstmusik (1974) and Musik im Bauch (1975) and many works by Schnebel and Kagel in which the overt musical content was at best minimal; Other composers represented include Cage, Partch, Birtwistle, and Maxwell Davies)
New Harvard dictionary of music (music theater)
New Grove opera (music theater)
Thames & Hudson encyclopedia of 20th-century music (music theater)

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