Literature, A.W. Schlegel writes that the "learned and artificial modulation" of recitative is less. From Wordnik.com. ['An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa] Reference
He heard from within a feeble sound of lamentation, and then some notes of that solemn and peculiar kind of recitative, which is in some parts of Italy the requiem of the dying. From Wordnik.com. [The Italian] Reference
The declamation and the dramatic treatment of the recitative were the points upon which his attention principally dwelt. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
4 Despite his general suspicion of Italian opera, Addison approved of the innovation of sung dialogue in recitative, remarking that. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on ''An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley's Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa'] Reference
Add to this, that, besides the common dialect, they often expostulate, in a kind of stanza or recitative, which is answered in the same manner. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16] Reference
We often hear Wagner's melody described as if it were not melody in the ordinary meaning of the word, but a kind of "recitative" or. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
Dulcimer, in fact, commenced a kind of recitative, to the. From Wordnik.com. [Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. In Two Volumes. Vol. II] Reference
Page 132 words and music to a wild "recitative," the chorus of which was caught up by the army of shuckers around. From Wordnik.com. [A girl's life in Virginia before the war,] Reference
And Cecily commenced a kind of recitative, much more accented by the expression of the voice than by the modulations of the song. From Wordnik.com. [Mysteries of Paris, V3] Reference
He wrote every kind of recitative as it had never been written before in any language, and as it has not been written in English since. From Wordnik.com. [Purcell] Reference
A drama in a kind of recitative based on this idea. From Wordnik.com. [My Reminiscences] Reference
"Milesian-Phoenician-Corkacian; nothing more, my boy, and a coaxing kind of recitative it is, after all. From Wordnik.com. [Charles O'Malley — Volume 2] Reference
Sisters, join in the chorus, "he said, and led off with a kind of recitative, improvised as the excitement gave him utterance. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Civil War] Reference
Under the notes of the recitative he was speaking to Clara. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
Meantime Mr. Beauclerk is still carrying on a charming recitative. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
"Rule Britannia!" and then chanted with the recitative energy of truth. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
Sardes, a sort of recitative by a tenor voice, with others joining in a chorus. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
The dark or sombre voice will be used in varying shades for the recitative from. From Wordnik.com. [Style in Singing] Reference
This did not help the protagonist, playing Bellerophon and doing a solemn bit of recitative. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
A ruffled-up bird in the vine whistled so like a flute that I did a bit of recitative as well. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
And he mimics operatic singers capitally, with sonorous words in mock Italian basso recitative. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
We have ourselves also witnessed a somewhat similar example of the powers of Italian recitative. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
The Rev. William Wentworth published, in the usual recitative, the banns of marriage between Thomas. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
The notion that recitative and melody are things opposed to one another is itself a misunderstanding. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
(Soundbite of opera singing) Mr. RAMEY: What I always loved were all the recitative that Giovanni has. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Ramey: Bad-Guy Bass Of Opera] Reference
The Tenth Director listened to the President's recitative of their difficulties, chorused by the Board. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
Here is an example; being the recitative immediately preceding the great air of Orpheus in the last act. From Wordnik.com. [Style in Singing] Reference
Dropping his proclamation loudness of voice, he slipped into his synagogue recitative tone, as he went on. From Wordnik.com. [The Mark of the Beast] Reference
On these grounds, we may reasonably conclude, that he was the composer of that terrible line of recitative. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
Another, of similar strain, thus set forth in a sort of recitative the story of the resurrection of our Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
He recognizes the chorus of the ancient drama, and the recitative of the Italian opera as natural, under this view. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
While these lines were given in Madame Deshoulieres 'inimitable recitative, the party had come close to the rustic pair. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference
About this time it was that Leonhard Marten, while passing, heard that recitative of a soprano voice which so amazed him. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
An able critic has also remarked, that he thinks he can perceive the obligations which Purcell had to Carissimi in his recitative, and to. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
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