recitativo
Noun
Meaning
Recitative.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
Here, the forms were freer and less extended than in the serious genre and the set numbers were linked by recitativo secco, the exception being Donizetti's Don Pasquale in 1843.
In Ben Jonson 's Lovers Made Men (1617), "the whole masque was sung after the Italian manner, stilo recitativo".