Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Recitative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) Recitative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A
recitative .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Indeed, the McCain character offers his "recitativo" for those who opened their their 401 K retirement plans.
CounterPunch 2008
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Indeed, the McCain character offers his "recitativo" for those who opened their their 401 K retirement plans.
CounterPunch 2008
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But he steadfastly forbore to compose a more systematic study; he was forever skeptical of generalizations and he had a low opinion of the merely expository--what he called deprecatingly recitativo.
Balkinization 2005
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“Bye Bye Love,” “Hey Birddog,” “Wake Up, Little Suzy”—he even remembered the entire recitativo of “Ebony Eyes.”
The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001
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“Bye Bye Love,” “Hey Birddog,” “Wake Up, Little Suzy”—he even remembered the entire recitativo of “Ebony Eyes.”
The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001
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“Bye Bye Love,” “Hey Birddog,” “Wake Up, Little Suzy”—he even remembered the entire recitativo of “Ebony Eyes.”
The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001
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Mozart, etc., the unaccompanied recitative (_recitativo secco_) is not barred.
Style in Singing W. E. Haslam
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One of these, as I have pointed out, was the substitution of one note for another in certain places; another, that in declamatory recitative, or _recitativo parlante_, the chord in the orchestra should come _after_ the voice
Style in Singing W. E. Haslam
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Its _length_ was left to the discretion of the artist, who was supposed to be familiar with the accepted style of delivery termed "_recitativo parlante_."
Style in Singing W. E. Haslam
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Read with a nod of the head in a humouring recitativo;
Hexameters 1927
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