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Meaning of "recitatives"

Recitative is a style of delivery in music and drama that is close to natural speech. It is often used in opera and oratorio to advance the plot or provide information
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The four recitatives all end as an arioso.
Niedermeyer apparently wrote the necessary recitatives.
Recitatives typically come without a tempo marking.
Score with sung recitatives in place of spoken dialog.
The work has set numbers with recitatives.
The recitatives and the chorale were changed.
After that a series of recitatives and arias follow.
Both recitatives begin secco and end as an arioso.
With abridged dialogue in place of recitatives.
The lost recitatives were replaced by recitation.
Bass and soprano recitatives.
No recitatives are given and whole scenes are omitted.
In this version the text of the recitatives has to be performed by a speaker.
Recitatives on the guillotine.
Both other recitatives are secco.

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An unknown librettist paraphrased the inner stanzas as alternating arias and recitatives.
All recitatives are secco.
Of particular interest are the instrumental recitatives of the Sinfonia cantabile in his op.
The recitatives should be interpreted by the performers with great freedom.
This version was given in Italian with recitatives instead of spoken dialogue.
The recitatives for bass and alto are accompanied by the flutes in a recitativo accompagnato.
But no effort was made to prepare a version of the Quintet or its introductory recitatives.
Meyerbeer composed recitatives to replace the spoken dialog for performances abroad.
Ernest Guiraud completed the scoring and wrote the recitatives for the premiere.
They frame alternating recitatives and arias with the text arranged by the librettist.
It is for opera seria, and accordingly consists of recitatives and da capo arias.
There are no recitatives in the Magnificat.
She also appeared in the film as a harpsichordist, accompanying all the recitatives.
Guiraud added recitatives in place of spoken dialogue for the Vienna premiere.
However, it did not contain the recitatives or the final chorus.
Both recitatives are secco, and the arias have no da capo.
Most of the arias in this work embody emotional states, set up in the recitatives.
The missing recitatives were added by Hermann Keller.
Bach adopted the new form of cantata, composing recitatives and da capo arias.
The recitatives are secco recitatives, accompanied only by the continuo.
He paraphrased the other four stanzas to four movements, for alternating recitatives and arias.
The dialogue recitatives are mostly secco recitatives, accompanied only by the continuo.
Gregorian chants fall into two broad categories of melody, recitatives and free melodies.
However, most of the recitatives from the original work remain missing.
Female singers became regularly employed, and replaced the male narrator with the use of recitatives.
Broadly speaking, liturgical recitatives are used for texts intoned by deacons or priests.
Musically, he explored contrast between stately and fully orchestrated sections, and simple recitatives and airs.
The Evangelist 's recitatives are set for tenor.
The recitatives follow a system of musical modes, somewhat like the maqamat of Arabic music.
Bononcini was a cellist, he and Handel presumably accompanied the recitatives in all the operas.
Some cantatas also contain recitatives of Bible quotations, assigned to the tenor voice.
Sire, only opera can do this . no recitatives.
The recitatives lean toward arioso at times, typical for Bach 's music in the period.
Only the overture and recitatives ( as well as the words ) were new.
All recitatives are secco, accompanied by the continuo, but movements 4 and 7 open with an arioso.

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