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recitative::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | musical passage, passage |
| Has types | arioso |
Examples of recitative
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None of these four recordings include Robin's Act II recitative and patter song.
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Note the use of Italian-style recitative, a rarity in English opera at that time.
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However, none of that stops the recitative bringing you down to earth with a thud.
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Recitative melodies are dominated by a single pitch, called the reciting tone.
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In any case, a key and time signatures for a recitative are merely musical notation.
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Minor changes, transpositions, and alterations to recitative sections are not shown.
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Wyman did double duty as recitative accompanist, confidently improvising at the piano.
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One of their number leads in recitative, and the whole company respond in the chorus.
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In classical music, arioso is a style of solooperasinging between recitative and aria.
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- A vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech
- Recitative , also known by its Italian name "recitativo" , is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech. ...
- Dialogue, in an opera etc, that, rather than being sung as an aria, is reproduced with the rhythms of normal speech, often with simple musical accompaniment or harpsichord continuo, serving to expound the plot; of a recital
- Dialogue which is "sing-speak." The recitative helps get through a lot of text quickly and moves the action along. Often precedes an aria or ensemble.
- A speechlike, declamatory form of singing used in vocal works such as operas, oratorios, and cantatas. Recitatives are often characterized by rhythmic freedom.
- A disease that Monteverdi had.
- A type of vocal writing in opera that mimics speech or recitation. Often preceding arias, recitatives generally convey a course of action that a character will take, rather than expressing a state of mind or emotion that a character feels.
- Music for solo voice that increases the intelligibility of the words by imitating the rhythmic patterns, inflections, and natural rise and fall of human speech. ...
- A half-singing, half-reciting style of presenting words in opera, cantata, oratorio, etc., which follows speech accents and speech rhythms closely.
