Recitative

Times wrote, “Hahn-Bin began with a clean focused sound that grew steadily brawnier and more assertive And when he returned to Kreisler after a pair of contemporary works, it was to play a bright but warm-toned performance of the Recitative and Scherzo, a more overtly virtuosic work, packed with showy effects, among them trilled double-stops.”

Jim Luce: Young Korean-American Hahn-Bin Wows Carnegie Hall In Debut Performance 2009

Recitative comes in two main forms, semplice or secco, which comprises most of the dialogue, and accompagnato or obbligato, which is reserved for passages requiring particular dramatic emphasis, though fully spoken parts (parlante), were not uncommon, particularly in Mozart.

'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa 2005

I hope I may be forgiven, that I have not made my Opera throughout unnatural, like those in vogue; for I have no Recitative; excepting this, as I have consented to have neither Prologue nor Epilogue, it must be allowed an Opera in all its Forms.

The Beggar's Opera 2007

Italian opera are Recitative, by which the business of action of the Opera, the principal thing in all dramatic performances, is carried on, and ...

'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa 2005

At the other end of the scale – by far the longest work ever published to be based on the principle of the found poem – is Charles Reznikoff's Testimony: The United States 1885-1915: Recitative, which consists of hundreds of stories taken from law reports and organised according to region, date and category; for example, ‘Social Life', ‘Machine Age', ‘Property', ‘Negroes', ‘Children', ‘Railroads'.

languagehat.com: LOVE AND THEFT. 2005

Recitative than could agree with the simplicity of the antients.

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

The Poet seems, in the first Ode particularly, to design the Epode as a complete air to the Strophe and Antistrophe, which have more the appearance of Recitative.

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

Recitative is peculiarly adapted to the expression of strong and violent emotion.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

Recitative and Aria, was also strictly regulated under the system or convention then in vogue, one perfectly understood both by composer and singer.

Style in Singing W. E. Haslam

_Recitative_ is a style of vocal solo common to operas, oratorios, and cantatas, especially those written some time ago.

Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928