Definitionn. a vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech
Last update: June 10, 2015
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The rudeness of early art is most apparent in the inequality of the metres in which both the dialogue and the "recitative" are composed. [Please select]
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The voice was soon on hand, and once more I was treated to the incomparable recitative. [Please select]
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He has the ambitions, the faculties, of a lyric poet, and he gives us too frequently recitative. [Please select]
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"I'll run through the recitative," he added, "and take your time from the stick."' [Please select]
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There you have the air and the recitative, intersected by pauses. [Please select]
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_ Call, a petulant, complaining _whang_; song, a broken, rambling recitative "you see it--you know it--do you hear me." [Please select]
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Flora had exchanged the measured and monotonous recitative of the bard for a lofty and uncommon Highland air, which had been a battle-song in former ages. [Please select]
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