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melomane en · NOUN

Etymology

From French mélomane, from mélo- + -mane; equivalent to melo- + -mane.

Meanings

1. Synonym of melomaniac.
   • Monsieur de Rochetaillée was a melomane. He thought of nothing, cared for nothing but music. It was the passion of his life; he could not live without music and musicians. 1868, [Henrietta Camilla] Jenkin, Two French Marriages, volume I, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 12:
   • But what was even more important to Monet’s eventual success in devising landscape images that attracted music-modeled appreciation like Silvestre’s is the fact that the melomanes among the younger painters of the 1860s had not produced anything like a consistent painting practice modeled on music. 2000, Kermit Swiler Champa, “Painted Responses to Music: The Landscapes of Corot and Monet”, in Marsha L. Morton, Peter L. Schmunk, editors, The Arts Entwined: Music and Painting in the Nineteenth Century, Garland Publishing, Inc., Taylor & Francis Group, →ISBN, page 114:
   • But music in Tarantino is also part of a larger sonic obsession that stresses the acoustic impact of dialogue, noise, atmosphere, and effects—Tarantino is an audio[-]mane as much as a melomane. 2012, Lisa Coulthard, “The Attraction of Repetition: Tarantino’s Sonic Style”, in James Eugene Wierzbicki, editor, Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema (Routledge Music and Screen Media Series), Routledge, →ISBN, page 166:

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Synonyms

melomaniac