FromFrenchmélomane, frommélo- +-mane;[1] equivalent tomelo- +-mane.
melomane (pluralmelomanes)
- Synonym ofmelomaniac
1868,[Henrietta Camilla] Jenkin,Two French Marriages, volume I, Leipzig:Bernhard Tauchnitz, page12:Monsieur de Rochetaillée was amelomane. He thought of nothing, cared for nothing but music. It was the passion of his life; he could not live without music and musicians.
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, page114: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 themelomanes among the younger painters of the 1860s hadnot produced anything like a consistent painting practice modeled on music.
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, page166: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 amelomane.
Frommelo- +-mane.
melomane m orfby sense (pluralmelomani)
- melomaniac
- melomane in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
