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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.
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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.
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The first two cantatas consist of two arias, each preceded by a recitative.
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The piece is an artful reworking both of Hungarian folk music and Baroque recitative.
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I detest recitative in its baroque continuo form.
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At least they get a nice harpsichord accompanying the recitatives.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's two-and-a-half hours of Cold War politics and recitative operatics!
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There is no stop-start recitative singing and the whole work flows along beautifully.
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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
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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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In his time, to quote Mr. Latham's 'Renaissance of Music,' 'the _musica parlante_ of the earliest days of opera was broken up into recitative, which was less eloquent, and aria, which was more ornamental.
The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.
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Finally, I use a large amount of words to elaborate how the famous recitative and aria in West Side Story and The Phantom Of The Opera are shown by Bel canto.
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It's the prime masterpiece of the period where Verdi went from a talented master of the Italian operatic tradition to a genius of reinvention: Verdi saw that the conventions of bel canto — the coloratura decoration, the steady build from recitative to cavatina to cabaletta, the diagetic justification for dance and popular music — had matured to the point that their mere presence could have dramatic content above and beyond the story.
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With the scene of the denial, for which we are thus prepared, the dramatic movement becomes exceedingly rapid, and the rendering of the events in the high-priest's hall -- Peter's bass recitative alternating its craven protestations with the clamorous agitato chorus of the servants -- is stirring in the extreme.
The Unseen World, and Other Essays
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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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Although also without recitative, there were arioso pieces and instrumental symphonies, with choruses which included chorales.
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Brindley Sherratt, the bass soloist to whom much of the important recitative is consigned, conveyed the drama excellently.
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They become a small Baroque ensemble for recitative passages.
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This musical tradition was developed in the seventeenth century with the emergence of opera, oratorio, and cantata and their attendant forms of aria, recitative, and chorale.
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Boubil and Schonberg created a score with countless showstoppers linked with recitative that is melodious and easily understood.
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Most of the work is punctuated with recitatives and arias with not much choral work but the work did not bore me at all.
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Much of it is recitative, a music of raw emotion, the cry of the heart without a melody.
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Call me a philistine, but I have small patience for Samuel Beckett, can tolerate only small doses of serial atonality, and am bored numb by recitative.
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It's the prime masterpiece of the period where Verdi went from a talented master of the Italian operatic tradition to a genius of reinvention: Verdi saw that the conventions of bel canto — the coloratura decoration, the steady build from recitative to cavatina to cabaletta, the diagetic justification for dance and popular music — had matured to the point that their mere presence could have dramatic content above and beyond the story.
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His recitative is more expressive, varying from something quite melodious to a fast-moving narration, in which individual words and phrases are expressed by astringent harmonies.
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In Act 3 when Guido and Emilia meet, he urges her to kill him in a remarkable sequence of secco recitative, accompanied recitative and arioso.
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One of these, as I have pointed out, was the substitution of one note for another in certain places; another, that in declamatory recitative, or _recitativo parlante_, the chord in the orchestra should come _after_ the voice
Style in Singing
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By the early eighteenth century, operatic juxtapositions (aria versus recitative, for instance) came to be seen as part of a standard order of representation, weakening the original shock-effect of the genre.
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Also enthralling was the remarkable Italian cantata from 1708, Tra le fiamme, in which three arias interspersed by recitatives lead to a final reprise of the first, resulting in a rather progressive cyclic structure.
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For a start, it is set in Classical Roman times, in the reign of the Emperor Titus, and strikes me as being much heavier on recitative than Mozart's more famous works.
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After a dramatic recitative which Genaux sings with some interesting vocal color, the aria is as light and as refreshing as a cool breeze.
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The scope of the movement is strictly calibrated so that the more complex, vigorous material executed only by the dancers springs as naturally from the basic choreography as aria does from recitative.
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Giasone," which had its premiere in Venice in 1649 and is said to have been the era's most frequently performed opera, is similar to "The Coronation of Poppea" in both its musical style recitative and short ariosi and its view of human nature as amoral.
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By now, a type of free-style declamation known as ‘recitative’ (literally ‘speech-song’) was being used to hurtle the drama forward.
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After a dramatic recitative which Genaux sings with some interesting vocal color, the aria is as light and as refreshing as a cool breeze.
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With their fusion of aria, ensemble, and recitative his operas paved the way for Gluck's reforms of the 1760s.
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It is not sung, but only declaimed, and the music is like an obbligato recitative.
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All follow a similar pattern, juxtaposing ‘free’ sections - in rhythms derived from operatic recitative that recurrently explode into whirligig scales and arpeggios - with fugato sections of varying degrees of formal rigidity.
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Arias, recitatives and choruses all profit from his lavish and quite astounding musico-theatrical imagination.
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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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We aren't surprised that Handel employs, for this grand theme, all the resources of classical Heroic Opera, involving recitative, arioso, aria, chorus, and ceremonial dance.
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I ended up writing an operetta - a collection of songs separated by recitatives.
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We can never thank her sufficiently for cutting out endless pages of songs and recitative by the melancholious old Hermit who, in the original version, was to commence the opera, and wander in and out of it incessantly.
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians
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The staging for Radames's return - with massed wind and brass, plus ballet - was terrific, despite some backstage noise for Aida's preceding recitative.
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For opera newbies, the continuo is a bassline played continuously (as the name implies) under the recitative or vocal line.
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Hawkins doesn't give us a heap of recitative, but actually finds a coherent musical structure that fits the poems.
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Respighi's setting is of a piece, an impressive feat - that is, he doesn't resort to cutting it up as a kind of dramatic scena or recitative.
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The countenances have an impassive and fixed expression, as the tragic actor, in the Greek theatre, assumed mask and cothurnus, and chanted the solemn lines to a recitative.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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Opera is music, drama, literature, dance, theater and art as a comprehensive integration of art, usually by the Aria, Recitative, ensemble, chorus, Overture, Intermezzo , dances and other components.
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By those who have investigated the matter, this chanting is believed to have been not what we call singing, but nearly allied to our recitative
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
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I detest recitative in its baroque continuo form.
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Both composers have the gift of following the twists and turns of often complex poetry without resorting to faux recitative or to dropping a melodic thread.
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But his peculiar language consisted of a sort of recitative, half-speaking the songs rather than singing them.
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These four scenes for Savage are quite significant, involving not just recitative but a sequence of strong da capo arias.
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The musical mainstay was the organ, played by James Vivian, who didn't stop for the two and three quarter hours of the performance, except during the recitatives.
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The intricate polyphonic choruses and semi-choruses with solo recitative were always lucidly controlled.
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Whereas the Furies’ verse maintains a regular rhyme scheme and forms a coherent antiphonal structure of response and chorus, the mocking tone of their words moves their chorus away from the emotiveness of aria into the narrative realm of fiction that in the opera buffa is largely the domain of recitative.
'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa
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Coming with a party of gentlemanly fellows slowly rowing up the Thames and humming some passionate recitative from an opera, he alone could recall the charmful stillness of a Scotch Sabbath, the worshiping crowds, and the evening psalm ascending from so many thousand hearthstones:
Winter Evening Tales
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There the very first note of the opening recitative is a tone lower - G - with the first and the fourth notes of the phrase therefore the same.
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The performance of keyboard continuo, especially in recitative passages, requires the frequent arpeggiation of chords.
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At least they get a nice harpsichord accompanying the recitatives.
Times, Sunday Times
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-- each instrument endowed with a personality, the dramatic _recitatives_ accompanied symphoniously by the orchestra
His Masterpiece
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We decided to omit the recitatives because, quite frankly, they are not very interesting.
