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10 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for RECITATIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:

a style of musical declamation, between singing and ordinary speech, used esp. in the dialogue and narrative parts of an opera or oratorio, also RECITATIVO
musical declamation of the kind usual in the narrative and dialogue parts of opera and oratorio, sung in the rhythm of ordinary speech with many words on the same note
a style of musical declamation, between singing and ordinary speech, used esp in the dialogue and narrative parts of an opera or oratorio
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.
a vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech

ADJECTIVE:

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

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a rhythmically free vocal style that imitates the natural inflections of speech and that is used for dialogue and narrative in operas and oratorios; a passage to be delivered in this style

Words related to RECITATIVE

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Words that contain RECITATIVE

How to use RECITATIVE in a sentence

Recitative Poetry Recitative poetry also took its rise during this epoch at Rome.
The language does not possess sufficient intonation to give effect to the recitative.
There is but one language in the world for tragic recitative and that is Italian.
I did not expect melody in their heaviness, but I shall certainly go, as the recitative part will be in French, and that you know is always some amusement to me.
There is no question that the rhythmic forms of recitative poetry differ vastly from those of instrumental music and chanted speech.
Expect for a few bars of insignificant chorus, the whole work consists of the accompanied recitative, which was the invention of these Florentine reformers.
Opera in his day consisted of a string of airs connected by recitative, with an occasional duet, and a chorus to bring down the curtain at the end of the work.
And further, it may be observed that the chant thus resulting, being like recitative, was much less clearly differentiated from ordinary speech than is our modern song.
For recitative, or musical recitation, is in all respects intermediate between speech and song.
An unusually emotional nature being thus the general characteristic of musical composers, we have in it just the agency required for the development of recitative and song.

The use in recitative and song of inflections more expressive than ordinary ones, must from the beginning have tended to develop the ordinary ones.
As they moved out, one of the older Hebrews in the forward ranks began to sing, in a wild recitative chant, of Canaan and the freedom of Israel.
A celestial music is heard by turns, and the verse following, in recitative, is murmured in a dull and almost hoarse tone.
On 20 September he was seized while he was working at the great recitative of Manuel Venegas in the first act.
By a curious anomaly the beautiful recitative, accompanied by the murmur of brooks and the songs of the birds, is in C major in both scores.
His melody was wavering and uncertain, oftentimes more a recitative than melody properly so called, and it was entirely his own.
She has not a phrase that is not beautiful, from her first dozen bars to her last recitative.
There was no union of the lyrics by any sort of recitative.
On the other hand, when the Florentine coterie created dramatic recitative, it was to use it in a drama wholly serious and poetic in purpose.
We may now turn to a consideration of the experiments which led to the creation of dramatic recitative, the missing link in the primeval world of the lyric drama.
Here are two examples of their treatment of passionate utterance in recitative.
There is a considerable amount of vocal wreckage strewn along the way, the result of wrestling with Wagnerian recitative.
The musicians in the large canoe performed merrily on their instruments, and about twenty persons now sung at intervals in recitative, keeping excellent time with their paddles.
The former plaintive chant returns, in slower, contained pace, broken by phrases of mourning recitative, with the old sigh.
But I shall be told that few of our native artists can speak the Italian language, or sing Italian music, and more especially recitative.
This gloomy recitative appears to serve as a moment of rest to the mysterious combating forces, and indicates a species of patrol kept in the unknown.
She acts as Adjutant to Madame, and rivals her mother as deliverer of sustained and rapid recitative.
There remains only declamation, the recitative, and the choruses.
The air was grave, and altogether unusual for the social character of one who dwelt upon the ocean, being chiefly in recitative.
Coleman, whose share in the performance was confined to the delivery of recitative.

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