Singspiel

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Singspiel \Sing"spiel`\, n. [G.; singen to sing + spiel to
     play.] (Music)
     A dramatic work, partly in dialogue and partly in song, of a
     kind popular in Germany in the latter part of the 18th
     century. It was often comic, had modern characters, and
     patterned its music on folk song with strictly subordinated


     accompaniment.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]