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recitative

NOUN
  1. a vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech

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  • The arias now give the impression of being an overflow from the recitative's disciplined passion - as they were in the recitative of early Baroque, Monteverdian opera.
  • In terms of sustained popularity the most successful German example was C. H. Graun's Der Tod Jesu (1755, to a poem by K. W. Ramler), which contains powerful choral writing and an effective fusing of recitative and arioso.
  • The first two cantatas consist of two arias, each preceded by a recitative.
  • The piece is an artful reworking both of Hungarian folk music and Baroque recitative.
  • I detest recitative in its baroque continuo form.
  • At least they get a nice harpsichord accompanying the recitatives. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's two-and-a-half hours of Cold War politics and recitative operatics!
  • There is no stop-start recitative singing and the whole work flows along beautifully.
  • They were all hymns and ballads of a minacious description, now one and now another of which he kept repeating in lugubrious recitative. Alec Forbes of Howglen
  • Recitative comes in two main forms, semplice or secco, which comprises most of the dialogue, and accompagnato or obbligato, which is reserved for passages requiring particular dramatic emphasis, though fully spoken parts (parlante), were not uncommon, particularly in Mozart. 'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa
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