In 18th-century gothic, music was a light melodic release from dramatic scares. But with the arrival of melodrama in the 19th century, gothic music became much darker.

In late 18th-century gothic plays such as The Italian Monk (1797), music ... Such music is indebted to the music of Victorian melodrama, but what I wanted to know was when melodrama acquired its ...

In 18th-century gothic, music was a light melodic release from dramatic scares. But with the arrival of melodrama in the 19th century, gothic music became much darker.