0 the quality of seeming true or of having the appearance of being real:
She has included photographs in the book to lend verisimilitude to the story.
1 the quality of appearing realistic or true
But in dramatic situations involving 'real music', verisimilitude invited musical expansiveness.
It was when opera was new that the demands of verisimilitude were most urgent.
Both points have a significant bearing on the notion of verisimilitude in early opera.
And what impact will this have upon verisimilitude on the one hand and the coherence of the poetic, musical and dramaturgical structure on the other?
One common response focused on the chromolithograph's verisimilitude.
The illusion of verisimilitude was further enhanced by the casting of the first operas.
Does this work impact on the emotions so effectively through the listener's reading of the original field recording as verisimilitude?
Given the background of rationalist theory, the question of verisimilitude in regard to the chorus was not only legitimate, it was basically overdue.
