recitative

Speech parts

1. recitative - Noun

2. recitative - Adjective

Meaning

A species of musical recitation in which the words are delivered in a manner resembling that of ordinary declamation; also, a piece of music intended for such recitation; -- opposed to melisma.

Of or pertaining to recitation; intended for musical recitation or declamation; in the style or manner of recitative.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

carol aria song lay passage singing narrative chant intonation recitation cantata incantation canticle bravura declamation
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Hypernyms

passage musical passage

Hyponyms

arioso

Examples

At one point in the opera, the rival divas Carmen Ghia and Donna Ribalda break character in the middle of a recitative to hold a conversation (still in recitative) about their singing careers. Source: Internet

In it, Verdi blurs the distinction between the aria and recitative as it never before was, leading the opera to be "an unending string of duets". Source: Internet

Rigoletto is one of, if not the earliest operas to abandon the traditional distinction between the sung aria, and the more speech-like recitative. Source: Internet

Luciani" is about Pope John Paul I. * Patti Smith 's recitative song "Wave" is about Luciani, and her Wave album is dedicated to him. Source: Internet

Even in the passages linking these "Grand Tunes", Puccini maintains a strong degree of lyricism and only rarely resorts to recitative. Source: Internet

In addition, he even seems to have striven for lively, antiphonal, unison recitative". Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

recitation recitational recitationist recitativelike recitatively recitativo