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“Ushuaia,” by Ms. Wiles, has more brio and more moments of spatial and quasi-dramatic tension; it’s set to the Partita No. 1 from Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber’s “Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa.”

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2015

It is difficult to give particulars, but would be improper to omit all mention, of such dramatic or quasi-dramatic work as the libretti of operas, farces for performance at fairs and the like.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

Paracelsus, though only a series of quasi-dramatic scenes, suggested considerable undeveloped capacity for drama.

From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

Pauline might in some indefinite degree reflect Browning's own feelings, but in the later poems he adopts his characteristic method of speaking in a quasi-dramatic mood.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

The Rowley poems include, among other things, a number of dramatic or quasi-dramatic pieces, "Goddwyn," "The Tournament," "The Parliament of Sprites"; the narrative poem of "The Battle of Hastings," and a collection of "eclogues."

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)