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 --
However, the composers of early opera discovered a much more potent and fundamental solution to the problem of verisimilitude, one that would carry them beyond dramas featuring musician-heroes.
The exchange of musical attention, then, from back-up to lead provides verisimilitude of a sort, and encourages the audience to get emotionally involved with the story.
The librettists were also concerned with the problem of verisimilitude with regard to dance, although they were somewhat less specific about how to integrate it into the action.
Should this sceptical scenario be countenanced, it would appear that realists go beyond their epistemic rights in inferring from a theory's success, to its probable truth or verisimilitude.
It would seem that in early opera a concern with the boundaries of verisimilitude manifests itself in two somewhat different ways.
The lyrical effusions are in fact fully justified dramatically and preserve, even enhance, verisimilitude.
However, the musical and visual materials are digitally processed in order to remove them from any attempt at historical verisimilitude and render them timeless.
Given the background of rationalist theory, the question of verisimilitude in regard to the chorus was not only legitimate, it was basically overdue.
