| 单词 | recitative |
| 例句 | Rising and falling, complex in harmony, uncertain in pitch, but constant in the recitative of pain. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody but Uncle Jack, perhaps, who sometimes embarrassed her unmercifully in front of company with a tinkling recitative of her childhood felonies. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z They sing arias, recitatives, choruses supported by an orchestra. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He also provided nimble harpsichord accompaniments during the recitatives, which enhanced the organic shape and flow of the performance. Music Review: ?Don Giovanni? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-10-14T18:50:40Z Everything he could turn into song, he did, brilliantly absorbing the story of Tony, a Sicilian immigrant grape farmer, and Rosabella, the much younger bride he obtains through deception, into arias, toe-tappers, recitatives and chorales. Review: ‘The Most Happy Fella,’ Sliced, Diced and None Too Pleased 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Paulus wanted more intensity in a fight scene between Bess and her former lover, Crown, and felt the characters should be spitting out their words rather than singing them in the opera’s traditional recitative. Arts & Leisure: It Ain?t Necessarily ?Porgy? 2011-08-05T15:00:00Z On the surface the narrator’s confessional, acutely detailed monologue hovers between long stretches of intense recitative and passages of lyrically enhanced arioso, sometimes poignant, sometimes chillingly detached. Review: In This One-Man Opera, It’s All in His Head 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Andrew Bidlack sang the Evangelist’s recitatives and the tenor arias ably and with a pleasant, light timbre. Music Review: Commemorating Bach, Holiday and a Conductor 2010-12-24T22:14:22Z No one will ever mistake operatic recitative for actual conversation, no matter what names and costumes the singers bear. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z And the problem isn’t with making the recitatives mostly spoken instead of sung. | 'The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess': Bess Claims Top Billing in New Version of Gershwins? Classic 2011-09-01T13:17:56Z Yet even in this scene of internalized emotions Mr. Gergiev’s performance was charged with intensity: the phrases of dramatic recitative evolved in fits and starts; the orchestral chords were heavy and lingering. Music Review | Mariinsky Theater Orchestra: At Carnegie, Gergiev Fosters Teamwork for Berlioz ?Troyens? 2010-03-12T00:22:00Z Wedow conducted the recitatives and arias mostly from the harpsichord, where he is a master stylist in achieving just the right fluid interconnections; he is supportive but never intrusive. ‘Messiah’ rings out, with Gary Thor Wedow at the helm 2013-12-22T02:43:48Z Her fury in the opening recitative was distinct from her lament in the aria proper, but both burned. Music Review: From Rage to Uplift in a Matter of Minutes 2011-01-28T22:39:48Z For the two centuries in between, the common perception was that, as Mr. Kerman wrote, “Lully’s recitative is bloodless, its vigor carefully paced, its passion channeled, its nobility stereotyped and labored.” ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z The program began with an instrumental interlude and recitative from Lully’s “Ballet de la Revente des Habits.” Music Review: ?Le Jardin de Monsieur Lully,? at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2011-09-26T21:49:55Z I’ve played a lot of recitative with harpsichord in my life. Old-Fashioned Approach to Met?s New ?Don Giovanni? 2011-10-09T03:45:05Z In most numbers Mr. Sams recycled not just the arias but the recitatives, retrofitted with new words. Music Review: ?The Enchanted Island? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2012-01-01T22:56:22Z But Martin gives us a biblical meditation rather than a musical drama in the manner of Bach, who alternated passages of urgent recitative and choral outbursts with reflective arias and chorales. music: Passion, Not Hyperbole, in Frank Martin?s ?Golgotha? 2010-07-16T23:38:00Z Much of the action occurs in highly charged bursts of dramatic recitative. The Metropolitan Opera Performs Donizetti?s ?Anna Bolena? 2011-09-27T12:51:23Z From my seat in the front orchestra, instruments and voices were in ideal balance, and that included the clever and always audible continuo contribution of harpsichordist Bradley Moore and cellist David Heiss in the recitatives. Dudamel and the L.A. Phil illuminate, elevate 'Cosi fan Tutte' 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z They cut down the recitatives and narration and some internal repeats and, adds Sharon, made tiny adjustments to the music to accommodate the shortening. Julius Caesar, young and gay: A groundbreaking 1971 opera gets revived for a new era 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z And she is at her best in intimate passing moments, like the meltingly poignant line of recitative just before the storm: “What a cruel, cruel fate is mine.” Music Review: ?Barbiere di Siviglia? at the Met, With Isabel Leonard - Review 2011-10-02T21:26:40Z Though the manner of vocal recitative, close to plainsong, seems at first coolly detached, its quiet concentration becomes engrossing. Dance Review | Mark Morris Dance Group: Cheekily Defying Expectations 2010-02-24T22:46:00Z But that grand-opera version, with its recitative — and some ballet music adapted from the Bizet catalog — was finalized after the composer’s death. Review: ‘Carmen’ Returns to Its Comic Opera Roots 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z As Bach did in his Passions, Tippett used arias, recitatives and choruses to carry the story, with a male soloist as narrator. Music Review: Collegiate Chorale Sings Tippett and Bruckner at Carnegie 2012-02-05T22:40:45Z "Medea" is a virtual compendium of vocal and instrumental forms of the period, with long stretches of accompanied recitative giving way to ariosos, laments, choruses, orchestral dance music and the like. French Baroque treasure rescued in stormy 'Medea' 2011-04-24T22:52:00Z It was presented here not in its original opéra-comique version from 1797, but in the much later Italian version popularized by Maria Callas, with the original spoken dialogue set to weighty, orchestra-accompanied recitative. Critic?s Notebook: A Blizzard This Summer at Glimmerglass 2011-08-02T16:06:03Z The challenges of signing music multiply when it comes to polyphonic works like the Passion oratorios of Bach, with their complex tapestries of orchestral and vocal counterpoint and declamatory recitatives. Making Music Visible: Singing in Sign 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Even though the piece felt quasi-operatic, with recitative, climactic high notes, dramatic flourishes and string tremolos, Bridges overwhelmed the quartet’s slender, glimmering sound with her plush, powerful singing. Review: A Singer Brings Her Splendid Sound to an Eclectic Recital 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Sung excerpts from the leaked war logs take on the unnervingly lulling rhythms of the Evangelist’s recitatives in Bach’s Passions, while passages from Ms. Manning’s Internet chats elicit warmer, more human vocalism. ‘The Source,’ an Oratorio About Chelsea Manning’s Leaks 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Again, he has a superb voice, but we tend only to hear one side of it; only in recitative does his character come alive. Il Barbiere di Siviglia ? review 2011-01-19T18:17:23Z But Monteverdi shows uncanny skill at writing extended vocal passages that shift seamlessly between recitative, arioso and aria. Review: An Inspiring End to a 6-Month Tour of Monteverdi’s Operas 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z Beethoven uses the cellos and basses like a song without words, a recitative without words. What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z A grave recitative leads to a consoling final aria, in which diffuse piano harmonies are surrounded by distant instrumental sounds, including tender harmonicas. Music Review: Philharmonic Opens Season at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-09-20T16:22:20Z So he folded lyrical nuances and bursts of volatility into the recitative portions of “Orfeo.” What to Look Forward to in the Fall Classical Music Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The high proportion of recitative results in a slowish dramatic pace, but the arias are breathtaking. Vivaldi: L'Oracolo in Messenia – review 2012-10-10T15:05:51Z Each consists of two arias and a recitative, and each is sung by a different soloist, in descending order from soprano to bass. Review: Juilliard415 Plays Haydn and Telemann, Evoking the Sun’s Arc 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z This is underscored by the power of Gluck’s highly charged recitatives, tersely expressive arias and stirring choruses. Review: Iphigenia Travels From Aulis to Tauris (and Back Again) on Brussels Stage 2009-12-16T07:25:00Z During long stretches of dramatic recitative, the orchestra accompaniments were sometimes sluggish. Bolshoi Opera Brings ‘The Tsar’s Bride’ to Lincoln Center 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z These collective manipulations lend a creepy element to the recitatives, which were otherwise performed as Handel wrote them. Review: A Baroque Opera Muddies Lines Between Him and Her 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The art form emerged around 1600 in Florence, Italy, where a group of composers, poets and intellectuals embraced a sophisticated style of recitative in an attempt to reinvent lyric Greek drama for contemporary audiences. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Classical Music Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z There were moments of arresting tension in the half-hour work, whose recitatives and dramatic arc flowed succinctly. Opera Review: Gotham Chamber Opera Performs at a Museum 2014-02-28T00:13:13Z But conventional wisdom held that the action-scenes of his operas, which hardly anyone thought to revive, were too much like recitative, while the obligatory divertissements of choruses and dances were largely pomp. Opera Review: Revival of a Passionate Operatic Triumph 2011-05-17T11:30:06Z I praised the considerable beauties of its instrumental music and set pieces but complained about the protracted recitatives, the “long, arid patches of spoken narration” and the “precious, self-indulgent libretto by Robert Gordon.” Julius Caesar, young and gay: A groundbreaking 1971 opera gets revived for a new era 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Once again, Bannister’s technique was solid, but voicing and dynamics lacked subtlety, most evident in the recitative and lament sections of the third movement, where the soft effects using the una corda pedal were pedestrian. Pianist Tanya Bannister at the Phillips Collection Written in 10 movements that alternate sustained resonance with sharp-edged rhythms, it is full of expressive “recitatives for glass bottles and heartfelt arias for metal pipes,” to borrow from Mr. Sliwinski’s eloquent program notes. Review: With Flower Pots and Toys, an Ensemble’s Fresh Take on Percussion 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Much of Sally Matthews's singing as the Countess was a consonant-free zone, and the recitative never went with the snappy conversational urgency it really needs – the leaden, approximate surtitles don't help either. Le Nozze di Figaro – review 2012-06-28T11:36:27Z That being in the theatrical moment is, of course, what makes Dudamel's singing such a delight when he lightheartedly appropriates a line of recitative from Dorabella. Dudamel and the L.A. Phil illuminate, elevate 'Cosi fan Tutte' 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z She incisively dispatched the coloratura flights, which sometimes turn demonic, and was engrossing during the long stretches of dramatic recitative. Music Review: O, Unsmiling Villainess! 2011-02-20T22:50:12Z The countertenor Nicholas Tamagna, as the worse son, Farnace, was charismatic, vibrant in recitative and with full, rounded tone in his arias. Music Review: From Milan to New York in 240 Years 2011-05-20T03:04:12Z There were exceptions, including some feverish orchestral playing to bring in the solo tenor’s recitative “All they that see Him.” Kent Tritle and Musica Sacra Bring ‘Messiah’ to Carnegie 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Oddly, the result is sometimes reminiscent of baroque opera – with narrated sections like spoken recitative, and aria-like moments when O'Sullivan breaks into song. Camille O'Sullivan: From cabaret to chaos 2012-08-13T17:44:54Z Conducting "Don Giovanni" for the first time and playing the recitatives from the harpsichord in the manner of Mozart's era, Luisi led a brisk and musically satisfying performance that included many fine details. Review: One dull `Don Giovanni' replaces another 2011-10-14T19:06:15Z The recitatives have refined vitality, and the ensembles are exquisite, including graceful choruses and a closely harmonized trio that anticipates the Three Ladies of Mozart’s “Magic Flute.” Music Review: Eccles’s ‘Judgment of Paris,’ at Washington Square Festival 2013-07-10T19:59:16Z The appealing tenor Nicholas Phan set the mood for the evening in the recitative “Comfort ye, my people,” performed with melting sound and beguiling sincerity, and the rousing aria “Ev’ry valley shall be exalted.” Review: ‘Messiah’ Brings the New York Philharmonic to Church 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z There's a very high proportion of recitative to arias, and some of the latter are perfunctory. Vivaldi: Armida al Campo d'Egitto 2010-07-08T21:50:00Z Jokes about tenors or recitatives, for instance, playfully turn the spotlight on the conventions of the genre. Is ‘The Mikado’ Too Politically Incorrect to Be Fixed? Maybe Not. 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z In Mr. Clark’s version a solo tenor — the fine Michael Slattery — moves smoothly from graceful melody to recitative, from speech to commanding drama, as the spirit of the Twain text evolves. Music Review: Manhattan Chamber Orchestra at Symphony Space 2012-06-28T21:08:15Z And there were episodes, especially some exchanges among singers of dramatic recitative, where more incisive execution from the orchestra would have helped. Review: James Levine Conducts ‘Tannhäuser’ at the Met 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Many qualities we esteem today — orchestrally accompanied recitatives, gripping declamation, colorful orchestration, a rich harmonic vocabulary — were greeted warily by a Parisian audience used to less overtly virtuosic music. An Opera Worth Fighting Over 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z It’s not like a Susanna, where you have many recitatives. Pretty Yende, a Soprano From South Africa 2013-02-01T22:37:34Z With “Ulisse,” the composer might seem to have gone against his initial instincts about the risk of relying too much on recitative. Review: An Inspiring End to a 6-Month Tour of Monteverdi’s Operas 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z In operatic terms, almost everything functions as recitative, little as aria. Opera Review: Opera Celebrates Bum Phillips, Who Led the Houston Oilers 2014-03-21T22:01:54Z He also offers occasional accompaniment, allowing the playwright's springy dialogue to play like recitative. Suzan-Lori Parks' 'Father Comes Home From the Wars' is an entrancingly intimate drama 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The elegant, supple, quasi-melodious recitatives for the Evangelist and Jesus are unaccompanied; the lucid choral writing is dramatic, but understated. Before Bach, He Was Germany’s Greatest Composer 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z The production includes newly imagined recitatives by Mark Grey, and promises video projections. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Mostly, as far as I can see, this has meant scrapping much of the score, using dialogue instead of recitative and reducing sets and cast to an affordable minimum. | 'The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess': Audra McDonald in ?The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? - Review 2012-01-13T03:01:13Z Such naturalness carried over to the score's recitatives, performed with suitably temperate feeling, and tastefully discreet vocal ornamentation. Baroque Band ends season with a special performance of Handel 2011-06-03T17:05:20Z She led alert, engaging recitatives and emphasized the work’s continuity, pausing for applause only at act breaks. Opera Review: ‘Agrippina’ by Operamission Sees Rome in a Satiric Light 2014-01-22T16:44:15Z The recitatives and arias are sung by members of the choir, who take turns slipping out of the ranks to walk to the front of the orchestra for their solos. Music Review: Trinity Wall Street’s ‘Messiah’ 2013-12-08T22:27:39Z Some recitative went in favour of reinstating arias: a wise decision. Julius Caesar; Siegfried – review 2012-10-06T23:08:03Z While the recitatives look back to the 18th century, other passages anticipate Berlioz and the grand opera of Meyerbeer. Two Centuries Later, a Composer Gets a Second Look 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Fourteen singers from the chorus assumed the solo duties, sometimes dividing a single recitative among as many three tenors. L.A. Master Chorale's 'Alexander's Feast' is a treat for the ears and eyes 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Long stretches of recitative, especially agitated dramatic passages accompanied by the full orchestra, slip subtly into more lyrical arioso, then segue almost unnoticed into an impassioned aria. Who Needs Sets or Fancy Costumes for These Mozart Operas? 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The texts for both oratorios are taken directly from the Luther Bible, sung in recitative form but commented upon via arias and chorales. SSO, Pacific MusicWorks each to put on a Bach Passion 2014-02-20T19:58:01Z No music is specifically assigned to characters but rather implies them in narrative recitatives and highly characterful arias, with the choruses commenting on the action. L.A. Master Chorale's 'Alexander's Feast' is a treat for the ears and eyes 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z True, the recitative was accompanied by full orchestra, sometimes ingeniously but more often in short-breathed bursts of punctuation. Review: Thomas Crawford and the American Classical Orchestra Perform a Haydn Opera 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z It is one of many instances in the production where the performers turn the recitatives into gripping dramatic exchanges. Music Review: City Opera?s ?Cos? Fan Tutte? at Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-03-19T22:28:54Z At one point, he even genially contributed a line of sung recitative in a resonant baritone, and he built the finale, through its several episodes, with logic and exuberance. Dudamel Leads Mozart’s Opera With a Zaha Hadid Set 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z All this imparted life to somewhat predictable alternations of recitatives and da capo arias that could have grown tedious. Music Review: A Generous Opening to the Lucerne Easter Festival 2011-04-11T17:51:16Z His pacing was impeccable: the work’s overall shape and the tempo relationships among the recitatives, arias, ensembles and choruses were carefully judged but never fussy. Music Review: A Score To Praise A Prophet 2011-04-28T20:51:24Z In practice, this means vigilant attention to dynamics, a seemingly effortless ebb and flow between recitative and aria, the merest, gossamer pressure on a phrase or accent to give shape and transparency. The Pearl Fishers, Le Nozze de Figaro 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z The continuo players, who accompanied the recitatives, were dazzlingly unified with the singers in moments like Jesus’ declaration that his kingdom does not belong to this world. Music Review: Berlin Philharmonic Performs a New ‘St. John Passion’ 2014-02-28T03:15:50Z In the first recitative, “Comfort Ye,” Ms. Glover allowed the gifted young tenor Paul Appleby to shape the phrases with melting tenderness. Review: Jane Glover Conducts the New York Philharmonic in ‘Messiah’ 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Groves conveyed the king’s mix of insecurity and cruelty, and delivered the essential recitative with urgency. Music Review: One Cruel King, by Way of Vivaldi 2011-08-10T22:00:40Z The genre placed primacy on the dramatic setting of words to music in various styles of recitative. Review: An Inspiring End to a 6-Month Tour of Monteverdi’s Operas 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z Yes, there's an awful lot more recitative, or conversational style in French Baroque opera, a lot more reliance on music that is strongly linguistic. Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z Even more improbable was the composer who chose to take on the daunting job of turning Angels into arias and recitative. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z The chorus sang “Here I stand at your manger” with hovering calm, and then Ms. Palmer attacked the final recitative with gusto. Music Review: Riverside Choral Society, at Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-24T21:59:57Z From both Handel and Bach, Tippett adopted a template of narrative recitative, contemplative arias, descriptive choruses and — specific to Bach’s Passions — familiar chorales. Into The Music: Michael Tippett?s ?Child of Our Time? Fits With Winter 2012-01-29T04:39:18Z In his recitatives, the Corbusier character identified Baker as a modernist whose disruptive performances are “the basis of a style capable of being the expression of the feelings of a new time.” What Josephine Baker and a Maharajah Teach Us About Design 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Vivaldi’s intricate recitatives flow with dramatic naturalness and urgency. Music Review: Garsington Opera’s ‘Olympiade’ by Vivaldi, in England 2012-06-24T22:11:06Z But when he trusted in his lovely voice, as in the melting opening phrases of the recitative “Comfort ye,” he sang with an affecting blend of tenderness and certitude. Music Review: Musica Sacra in Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-21T22:47:06Z It is basically a sacred drama, consisting of recitatives, arias, a couple of duets and a chorus to end each of the two acts. Music Review: A Generous Opening to the Lucerne Easter Festival 2011-04-11T17:51:16Z During a recitative passage, Mr. Jordan sang the singers’ parts in Italian, calling out instructions between the lines. Philippe Jordan, a Conductor Who Excels at Juggling Jobs 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z She can write a recitative worthy of Janacek, or a pop tune that could have charted on 1970s AM radio. Jeanine Tesori’s Gift: Conjuring the Storytelling Potency of Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z One thing we do is raise the pit, to try to get the conversation you need between instruments and voices in the recitatives. Harry Bicket, Conducting Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z Music lovers hear different soloists, conductors and orchestral configurations, and even different “Messiahs”: usually several of the oratorio’s 53 movements — choruses, solos, recitatives — are cut, for reasons of length. Seattle Symphony audiences have never heard a ‘Messiah’ production quite like this season’s 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z The English bass Matthew Rose made an authoritative entrance in the Ninth when he jumped to his feet to sing his introductory recitative. Music Review: John Eliot Gardiner Leads Ensembles at Carnegie Hall 2012-11-19T22:57:38Z Mr. Schleiermacher, comparing his group’s recording of the Largo with the scene from “Lucullus,” said that “there is indeed a certain similarity,” adding that both contain “echoes of liturgical recitative chants, almost psalmody.” A New Album Reflects a Composer’s Stubborn Versatility 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z In the finale, Kalmar’s highly individual phrasing of the low-strings recitatives that “reject” earlier themes to prepare for the arrival of the famous “Ode to Joy” tune was vividly and aptly operatic. Carlos Kalmar leads SSO in fresh take on Beethoven 2013-12-29T19:43:19Z The final section of this “recitative and air,” as Thomson called it, is like a nonsensical yet glorious religious proclamation: “Foundationally marvelously aboundingly illimitably with it as a circumstance.” A Singer for Whom Words Always Came First 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z On "The Very Thought of You," Jordan improvises a recitative rebuttal, midsong, of a review that complained she didn't sing the melody last time she was in town. Sheila Jordan's 'Yesterdays' a treasure 2012-01-30T22:34:05Z There are long episodes of recitative which are too often accompanied by restless coughing in the stalls. Monteverdi's Flying Circus 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z “Maometto II” is not typical of the “number operas” of Rossini’s day, in which dramatic recitative connects a series of arias and ensembles that end with a flourish and invite bravos from listeners. Music Review: A Rossini Masterwork Ahead of Its Time 2012-07-30T22:09:48Z But staying true to the original setting allows the piece to emerge as Gershwin conceived it: a full-fledged opera with long stretches of recitative and arioso, soaring arias and duets and complex choral ensembles. When News Upstages an Opera Performance 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Handel, in a quick succession of recitatives, arias and duets, tells of the god Apollo’s somewhat bullying courtship of the nymph Daphne, who wants no part of him. Review: A Sublime Survey of Baroque Music 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z During recitative passages, the sounds of period instruments in the ensemble are enhanced, distorted and layered over with electronic sounds, the work of the sound designer Mark Grey. Review: A Baroque Opera Muddies Lines Between Him and Her 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z So the tenor recitative that usually begins the piece today — “Now there arose a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph; and he set over Israel taskmasters to afflict them with burdens” — has context. Music Review: Handel?s Old Testament Dramas Revived in New York 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z In the second recitative, the “speaker” — our cellos and basses again — wants to teach them. What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z In a fitful burst of dramatic recitative, Idomeneo, washed up on shore, describes the pledge he made to Neptune: If the god saves him, Idomeneo will sacrifice the first man he encounters. Review: Mozart’s ‘Idomeneo’ Shows the Met Opera at Its Best 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Yes — the entire oratorio ... every aria, every chorus, every recitative, every note! It's 'Messiah' season in Seattle 2010-12-01T23:52:00Z Most of the recitatives — the half-spoken, half-sung dialogues that link one musical number to the next — are omitted, but plot points lost thereby are explained by captions, a canny solution. A ‘comedy’ about a seducer? Seattle Opera tackles new version of ‘Don Giovanni’ with skill and caution 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z As in years past, the soloists in the Trinity “Messiah” were drawn from the chorus, and the recitatives and airs were distributed among several sopranos, altos, tenors and basses, instead of the usual solo quartet. Music Review: ?Messiah? Season, in All of Its Hues 2010-12-16T16:27:17Z The recitatives that had been thought to be the opera’s longueurs here were shown to be, in fact, as subtly inflected as Gregorian chant. 'Young Caesar' finally conquers: Troubled 1971 opera is reborn at Disney Hall 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Musically, the recitative exchanges are given full dramatic flair. ‘Don Giovanni’ Revival by the Paris National Opera 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Especially laudable was the decision to perform the recitatives with few cuts. Opera Review: Natalie Dessay, Becoming Violetta 2011-07-19T11:00:05Z This was especially bothersome during long episodes of highly charged dramatic recitative. Music Review: ‘Ciro in Babilonia’ by Rossini, in Bel Canto at Caramoor 2012-07-08T21:08:06Z It consists of two parts, each mostly a string of arias and recitatives in Italian with an instrumental introduction and a concluding chorus sung by the five characters. It’s Handel; It’s Not What You Think 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z But his songs are fascinating and unwieldy: shifting with little predictability among folk melody, recitative and concert aria virtuosity, sometimes from verse to verse. Review: A Recital Brings Together Two Schubert Masters 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Chin’s eclecticism sometimes takes the form of overt references to music history, as in a passage of harpsichord-accompanied recitative at the start of the fifth scene. Review: ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ by Unsuk Chin, Told With Restraint 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Every year, Handel’s “Messiah” is a communal ritual — a glittering parade of recitatives, arias and choruses that binds listeners and performers together in a story of promise, betrayal and redemption. Meet the People Who Can’t Bring You ‘Messiah’ This Year 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The opera unfolds primarily through extended stretches of heated, tortured and poignant recitative. Music Review: One Cruel King, by Way of Vivaldi 2011-08-10T22:00:40Z He captured the narrative urgency of the work during the stretches of accompanied recitative and choral outbursts. Music Review: Musica Sacra in Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-21T22:47:06Z Monteverdi, though, was careful to avoid long stretches of uninterrupted recitative. Review: An Inspiring End to a 6-Month Tour of Monteverdi’s Operas 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z Its 58 numbers run some two hours, an almost constant alternation between recitative and aria. Review: Philharmonia Baroque Unearths a 300-Year-Old Rarity 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z And this means that the singers that we've hired are people who will be far more attentive to language because there's an awful lot more recitative, dialogue, conversation, than there would be in Italian opera. Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z “Tenor Overboard” relies more on theatrical dialogue than on the usual operatic recitative, so Ludwig’s libretto had to be fairly extensive — and funny. Lend Me a Jukebox Opera. Yuks and Tenor Required. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z Some operas are faulted for scores that lack melodic richness, relying too much on long stretches of dramatic recitative. Review: Flawed but Fascinating Dvorak Opera in a Rare Staging 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Katerina is assigned poignant salon arias and pensive recitatives that bear the contours of folk song. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z In a riveting recitative Raphael describes the Earth as being without form. Music Review: Haydn’s ‘The Creation,’ at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-24T22:38:21Z Her voice, while radiant and creamy, especially in extended lyrical passages and the compelling spans of recitative, seldom soared into the house. Music Review: Rossini?s ?Armida? Has Its Premiere at the Met 2010-04-13T20:20:00Z Sammy, his love of fast music notwithstanding, said his favorite part was the opening tenor recitative because of its mystical calm and ability to “capture the audience.” The New Wizard Teaching at the Hogwarts for Choir 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z But Mr. Ratmansky often ignores these divisions, keeping the dancers moving between recitative and the fully orchestrated and sung sections, never quite letting a narrative thread take hold. Dance Review: Choreographer Works Magic With Latest Ballet 2013-12-20T13:13:20Z Thanks to the conductor Ryan Brown and the four singers, the recitatives between the set pieces stayed suspenseful; the act took us through quite a spectrum. Review: Lafayette’s Double Bill of Baroque Opera and Dance Drama 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Norma counsels peace, at least for now, in a charged stretch of recitative that leads to the great aria “Casta Diva,” when Norma prays to the moon goddess to bestow solace and patience. Compelling Singers Lift a Muddled ‘Norma’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Four years later a Broadway version stripped of recitative, with spoken dialogue linking songs and ensembles, had commercial success. Some Ground Rules for Revising Operas and Musicals 2012-03-11T05:41:51Z The piece begins with a long recitative and aria in which Ms. Southwell’s Sarah admits to murdering her husband and two children but tries to explain her motives. Review: ‘Anatomy Theater,’ an Opera, Puts Convicts Under the Knife 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z It was moody for sure — a detective story whose unease came from efficient musical motifs and natural, if plain spoken, recitative. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Sams’s original libretto, with witty recitative, is set to music lifted from operas and other works by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau and other Baroque composers. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:06:12Z All the vocal lines skirt rhythmically square recitative and tender arioso, sung over a subdued disco track. Review: Librettos and Ariosos Meet Video at Anthology Film Archives 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z For me, the instrumental recitatives that follow are much more interesting than what the baritone sings later on. What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z All of the recitative is cut, along with the choruses. Rossini at the Drive-In, as San Francisco Opera Returns 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z She narrates, in a long, searingly confessional recitative, how Don Giovanni stole into her room, how she took him for Ottavio, how she fought him off, and how the killing occurred. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z But he seemed to be pushing his voice and sometimes barked lines, especially stretches of dramatic recitative. Review: ‘Ernani,’ With Plácido Domingo, a Tussle to Hold on to a Love 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z He believed that there had been too much reliance on long stretches of austere recitative, which could get a little dreary. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Classical Music Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z At times, recitative passages were syllabically crowded, their cadences a bit overburdened. Review | With debut of ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ at the Met, a watershed moment for American opera 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z With a shift back to recitative, Phèdre realizes her situation is hopeless and urges Hippolyte to kill her, before seizing his sword herself. An Opera Worth Fighting Over 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z This production, a four-performance run that begins Wednesday, July 12, employs multidimensional video and reimagined recitatives by the composer and sound designer Mark Grey. Anthony Roth Costanzo in a Handel Rarity at National Sawdust 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z The songs often seem closer to recitative, burdened as they are with busy lyrics that seem to be riding generic background music. Review: A compassionate 'Transparent' musical is stymied by its chaotic production 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z The vocal style is lyrical yet speech-like — not exactly recitative, nor song, nor sung speech, but an amalgam of all three. Review: Los Angeles Opera turns to the raw side of Dublin in a pair of new operas 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Her viola — starkly expressive in the recitative, rich and resonant in the song and dazzlingly virtuosic in the variations — might have been a superhuman mezzo-soprano. Review: Composer Lina González-Granados makes a big splash in the big outdoors in her Bowl debut 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z A problem with the opera has always been that Beethoven relied on dialogue between musical numbers rather than recitative. Review: Gustavo Dudamel and Deaf West Theatre vividly reimagine Beethoven's 'Fidelio' opera 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Much of the score — Taub wrote book, music and lyrics — is written in recitative, which confers on “Suffs” an operatic quality. Review | Two new musicals dig into America’s past but fail to strike gold 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z He treated the recitative narration of Christ’s last days as inescapably vivid drama. The Hamburg Ballet tackles Bach and Bernstein with rich imagery and movement 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z They continue their faintly catchy melodies, cheerless recitative, predictable cadences, all the while deceiving themselves. Review: The global warning opera 'Sun & Sea' is justifiably the hottest ticket in town 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z A singer — Bach made versions for soprano, mezzo-soprano and bass-baritone — has three arias, connected by two short narrative recitatives. Commentary: Bach wrote BWV 82 to transcend tragedy. It's a lullaby for our times too 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z The quartet ends with a march, a recitative and thrillingly passionate aria-like finale. Beethoven for pandemic times: How Opus 132 is journey through illness and healing 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Apollo needs no introduction and Handel forgoes an overture, allowing the hotshot god to immediately thump his chest in an opening recitative about how he’s the greatest archer, the greatest at all things, love included. Review: The L.A. Phil, as only it can, delivers a long weekend of 'Apollo' and 'Flower Power' 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The opening number, “1973,” sets the scene with the help of recitative. Review: In the 'Almost Famous' musical, Cameron Crowe's coming-of-age rock tale burns bright 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z The first major recording wasn’t made until 1967, and even then was missing some of the recitatives. Review: It took 228 years, but L.A. Opera’s ‘Clemency of Titus’ proves worth the wait 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z The melodies are so simple, though, that they make little more impression than opera recitative — at first. Review: In this modest musical, Jane Austen's Emma goes on being literature's perpetual busybody 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The scoring is lighter in weight than in “Usher,” still mostly recitative, but now with flashes of humor like the interpolations of “Yankee Doodle” and “Rule Britannia.” L.A. Opera's 'Scare Pair' at the Broad Stage 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z “Serse” opens with the title character’s recitative: “Tender and beautiful fronds of my beloved plane-tree . . . / May thunder, lightning, and storms never bother your dear peace, / Nor may you by blowing winds be profaned.” The Tough Immigrant Tree That Represents New York 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z She’s more in that line of the peculiar speaking voice, Jimmy Durante and Leonard Cohen and Groucho Marx, that kind of recitative talk singing.” Laurie Anderson’s Glorious, Chaotic New York 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Bach’s music for this recitative is queasily unstable, with dominant-seventh and diminished-seventh chords preventing the music from settling in one key area. Bach’s Holy Dread 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Despite periodic attempts at reform, a recitative of outrage about Angola sounds through the decades, in magazines, books and newspapers. Albert Woodfox: ‘I choose to use my anger as a means for changing things’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Particularly in the recitatives, and there are a lot of long winded recitatives in this opera, the vocal lines can be much less pleasing and inventive than the orchestral music. 'Death of Klinghoffer': Private Grief Turned Into Public Entertainment 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Sometimes the words are strung together and put to lilting melodies in a sort of journalistic recitative. Juárez: A Documentary Mythology – a city of death finds voices to reaffirm life 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z This recitative leads into a furious burst when the shackled one clenches his fists and threatens all Godhead. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Again were the voices within raised in recitative. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z One or two familiar hymns occurred in the course of it, like airs in a recitative, the same sung in our churches, but the effect was totally different. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z The 1st recitative for the bass voice is in some parts uncomfortably high; and the composer himself permits the singer, in its opening notes, to sing . Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z To these he prefixed an essay advocating the claims of English libretti, and insisting on the value of recitative. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z It was enough, and silence reigned as the heavenly sympathy of the recitative trembled from the strings surcharged with fire. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z It was a sort of recitative or plaintive melody, fit keynote of the sad scenes that were to follow. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z Two other innovations in its production were the introduction of recitative and the appearance of a woman, Mrs Coleman, on the stage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z A soprano solo introduces the second Agnus Dei in a kind of recitative, and a chorus, strengthened by trumpets, precedes the tremendous Miserere Nobis. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z He was broad awake: he listened whether all was quiet, and heard nothing but the clock strike twelve; a piece of news which the watchman forthwith communicated to the hamlet in doleful recitative. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z The recitatives seem long, and they are interminable compared with those by which Verdi connects his musical pieces. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z Intōn′ing, a modern popular term for the utterance in musical recitative of the versicles, responses, collects, &c. of the Anglican liturgy. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z She gave the syllables in recitative, the âni just two notes higher than the médi, and she accented them quite wrongly. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z I have been able to dispense with all historical recitative, and to substitute individual persons; and I have always introduced an angel, or a chorus of angels, instead of the Lord. The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio "Elijah" 2011-12-06T03:00:26.413Z The rhapsodist did not, like the early minstrel, use the accompaniment of the harp; he gave the verses in a flowing recitative, bearing in his hand a branch of laurel, the symbol of Apollo’s inspiration. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z But when Tancredi was first brought out opera seria consisted almost entirely of recitative, relieved here and there and only at long intervals by solo airs. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z He has received a celestial revelation of some dark crime that is awaiting vengeance, and his first short recitative refers to this secret. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z In the Italian operas he imitates the florid style of his time, but even in these the recitatives occasionally show considerable dramatic power. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z He always proved himself a thoughtful artist, and strove to obtain a clear appreciation of each separate point—such, for instance, as the admissibility of the chorale, of the narrative, recitatives, etc. The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio "Elijah" 2011-12-06T03:00:26.413Z In ordinary, accepted operatic form there were certain things to be expected;—recitatives, andantes, arias, choruses—all neatly laid out according to rule. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Elisabetta was the first Italian opera in which recitative was accompanied by the stringed quartet in place of the double bass and piano previously employed. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z We learn from his first recitative that this casket contains precious documents and relics of the late king which have been guarded and concealed by Phradates, the supposed father of Arsaces. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z Call, a petulant, complaining whang; song, a broken, rambling recitative "you see it—you know it—do you hear me?—do you believe it?" Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Mendelssohn at once proceeded to the ante-room, and, in a few minutes, composed a recitative for tenor solo, with accompaniment for strings and two trumpets. The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio "Elijah" 2011-12-06T03:00:26.413Z Both Titjiens and Nilsson were singing with me, and the former had to follow me in the recitative. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Lucrezia Borgia contains less recitative than belongs to the operas of Rossini, who himself dispensed with the endless monologues and recitatives cultivated by his predecessors. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z Marguerite interrupts her ballad to soliloquize again, in pretty recitative tones, about that "fine stranger," but she soon recalls herself and resumes the song. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z I did not hear this, but a friend told me that the speaker’s electric recitative made the hackneyed words forever new and fresh to him. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z The parts were expeditiously copied by the indefatigable Goodwin, and the whole recitative was performed prima vista by Mr. Lockey, a quintet of strings, and the two trumpet players. The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio "Elijah" 2011-12-06T03:00:26.413Z Few people know, for instance, that he wrote all the recitative music for Carmen. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Ainu music is almost entirely vocal, and their singing has more the character of the recitative than of the aria proper. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z A nervous, anxious instrumental passage precedes the opening recitative dialogue. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z Parodi is good everywhere—in the dull recitative, and in the secondary and unimportant passages. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Recitative.—Formerly recitative was dry, but now we live in the age of moist recitative. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z The recitative arts, being spiritual in their nature, quite appropriately flourished in Christendom. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z —The "Occasional Oratorio" is a separate composition, containing an overture, 10 recitatives, 21 airs, 1 duet, and 15 choruses. Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-13T02:00:32.783Z He shares no joy on this occasion of his mother's wedding, and his first words are a short recitative about "frailty, thy name is woman." Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z The recitatives are sung by Hanna and Lucas, who are lovers, and by Simon, who is a friend of both, apparently. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z Signor Garcia astonished the audience with his masterly powers, many of whom had no conception that so much tragic effect could be given in recitative. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z She speaks in an irregular recitative, sustained by chords on the viols and harpsichord. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z This is followed by the beautiful aria, "O marm, I want a pancake," followed by that touching recitative, "Shet up, or I will spank you!" Frontier Folk 2011-08-19T02:00:11.653Z A child’s voice was chanting the words in a dreamy recitative. Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z The work is sung like an oratorio, in arias, recitatives and choruses, and is interspersed with charming little songs. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z The lay gained great applause, but it was a long epic, which became wearisome by the monotony of the melody or recitative. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z Then she speaks, recitative with chords only by strings and harpsichord. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z It originated, as the Latin tropes show, in speeches given in unison and to music—a kind of recitative. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z As an example of these songs, which are current amongst the people, we may here give a very favourite one, which is sung in a sort of half recitative. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z Mr. Spencer gives also an interesting discussion on the relations between poetry, recitative, and song. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z Up to this sentence the story was a quiet recitative he might have learned by rote, and uttered at the bidding of one he felt had a right to hear it. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z We perceive this want in the uncertain measures of Chaucer’s versification; and a dexterous modulation is still required to catch the recitative of Chaucer’s poems. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z And, taking up a score of the "Messiah" that lay open upon it, he struck a few opening chords, and, in a fine tenor voice, began the recitative "Comfort ye, Comfort ye my People." Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z The Gascon dirge is a kind of prose recitative made up of distinct exclamations that fall into irregular strophes. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z After the first few bars of recitative, she launched boldly into the cavatina—one of the most difficult pieces of the opera. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z Then he wrote his master works, ... and welcomed his friends, often reading aloud to them in magnificent recitative, unpublished prose or verse. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z Sounds of as many magpies filled the dignified silence—two French women and three men venting recitatives of hope that yet they might hear the Leoncavallo masterpiece. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z The libretti were composed in octave stanzas, with passages of terza rima, and were sung to a recitative air. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z It is possible that some such recitative was used in the Greek drama. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The second act ends with a recitative for the fourth fairy, a dance and a chorus welcoming the little Indian boy. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Their leader was a gigantic negro called Binyard, and to his impromptu songs and recitatives the oars kept time all the sixteen miles. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z The recitative of hope soughed into a chorus of disappointment as the moneyed young man clutched his half dozen tickets and started for the inner door. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z The words were simple, and more in recitative than rhythm. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z To give effect to their opinion they devised a method of setting music to declamation, the earliest form of recitative. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z The new form consisted in this, says M. Hignard in his preface to the score: in the vocal part of his work he interpolates declamation, replacing the recitatives, and fully backed by the orchestra. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Yet they strove in the main to follow the gleam in poetry, to reinstate imagination upon its throne, and to substitute the singing voice for the rhetorical recitative of the heroic couplet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z "I believe this ideal-man also begins to care about other things besides airs and recitatives--however, it is quite unnecessary." Riven Bonds. Vol. II. A Novel, in Two Volumes 2011-02-16T03:00:40.700Z She acknowledged it with smiling thanks on all sides, and, when the conductor, who undertook the accompaniment, had seated himself at the piano, began her recitative. Riven Bonds. Vol. I. A Novel, in Two Volumes 2011-02-16T03:00:38.687Z The accent of the women is particularly soft, with a sort of plaintive modulation, reminding me of recitative. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z It is a dramatic recitative with elaborate orchestral accompaniment to the words, slightly adapted, from Ariel's speech to Prospero in Act i., Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z The rudeness of early art is most apparent in the inequality of the metres in which both the dialogue and the “recitative” are composed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z He sat in a strange daze, vaguely conscious that the organ had ceased, and that some preacher's recitative had begun instead. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z To signal that the song was done, “Hitchbiddy” dropped the tune on the last line, and in calm, direct, matter-of-fact recitative announced that “the grand Conversation of Napoleon arose.” King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z There is no pause, and before the last roll is ended the one giving the recitative places another personage on the tree, and thus Jordan rolls along. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z It had been refused by the Academy of Music, so the authors cut the recitatives, put in prose dialogue, and produced the piece as an op�ra comique. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Another bird that moves one in a very different way is the robin, of whom it is hard to say whether he has more of tears or smiles in his recitative. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History It was slow, uniform and measured, without rhythm and beat, and thus it approached the old recitative method of psalm singing. The Story of Our Hymns But Michael threw a cushion at her, and the recitative came to an end. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The recitative is given with increased vigor, and the chorus swells with increasing volume. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z The verses are frequently chanted in a solemn recitative, while the ballad tunes tend to be confined chiefly to the refrains. Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes Besides, it would soon pall—imagine asking for three-kreuzer cigars in recitative, or giving the washerwoman the inventory of your dirty clothes in a sustained and flourishores aria!” Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work All this and more was told in action, in song, and recitative, upon the palace lawns before this strange audience, themselves partly actors in the pastoral drama. The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance In fact, we have come to a time when opera is a real drama set to music which is largely recitative and which does not distract from the action of the drama. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists The piece frequently commences with a recitative by one voice, and at the end of the first line the chorus joins. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z We shall not weary the reader with a statement of the latter, nor a recitative of the conditions upon which they are or may have been based. K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic Treating the More Important Events of the Ku-Klux-Klan Movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave Rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues Emanating from it. The subjects of all were classical, allegorical, and pastoral, and to the recitative, alone, were added songs and arias, and the overture was developed. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women It is now frequently applied to a simple melodious air, as distinguished from a brilliant aria, recitative, &c., and often forms part of a large movement or scena in oratorio or opera. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Rubinelli's articulation was so pure and well accented that in his recitatives no one conversant with the Italian language ever had occasion to look at a libretto while he was singing. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday Even his voice partook of the change, and was now a rich, full, mellow Clare accent, which, with the recitative of his country, seemed to Italianise his English. Jack Hinton The Guardsman It consisted at first of a declamatory narrative or scene in recitative, held together by a primitive aria repeated at intervals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" He used largely the form of recitative, but developed the overture, dividing it into a prelude, a fugue, and a dance. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women He would not come in time for rehearsal and I did not see him until I turn my head in the first recitative and see him making his sword chain. Confessions of an Opera Singer The priests and spiritual powers marching beneath filled the vast building with broad recitatives, full of vividly descriptive passages and finely contrasted measures, until the soul seemed melted in a sea of bliss. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar Again the voices broke forth, now returning as I had said, and swelling higher and higher, in a long recitative uttered by some dozen, and replied to in rolling chorus by the whole body. A Frontier Mystery With the rise of the Da Capo aria the cantata became a group of two or three arias joined by recitative. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" Discuss the opera music of to-day: Is it on the whole melodious, or is there a tendency to return to the old style recitative? Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women "Here's my friend and travelling companion, Henry Talbot, come to share your hospitality, Mary," said he in English, to which the slightest foreign accent lent a tone of recitative. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago And for that reason, consider how difficult and important a matter it is to be able to write a good recitative. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 After some alto recitatives and short choral phrases, the leading theme once more enters with heavy martial step to the words, “There was Manhood’s Brow,” etc. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Many of Bach’s greatest cantatas begin with an elaborate chorus followed by a couple of arias and recitatives, and end with a plain chorale. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" They were singing ribald songs and the recitative, between the melodies was composed of oaths such as Jim had never heard. Frontier Boys in the South Seas Maule bowed also, and presently, taking advantage of a recitative, he left Mrs. Manhattan and entered Eden's box. Eden An Episode There is no beautiful aria out of which a beautiful recitative could not be made; no beautiful recitative out of which a clever man could not produce a beautiful aria. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Mephistopheles is seen scaling the rocks and in agitated recitative tells his companion the story of Marguerite’s crime and imprisonment. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Lauretta essayed a grand scena, but we had not got many bars into the recitative when everything was at sixes and sevens; none of the players had the slightest idea of accompanying. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. Word and stage-play conveyed the dramatic progress of the action, followed more or less meagrely by musical recitative; arrived at the point of rest, music resumed the reins. Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music He would also listen long to Severn’s playing, following the air with a low kind of recitative; and could himself “produce a pleasing musical effect, though possessing hardly any voice.” Life of John Keats He did much for musical art, perfecting recitative and advancing the development of the sacred cantata. Weird Tales. Vol. I A short bass recitative leads to a vigorous descriptive chorus relating the temptations of Siddârtha, in which the orchestra is used with masterly effect. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Hark! did you ever hear the grand yet simple recitative she is now commencing? Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. Each phrase of each sentence, like an air or a recitative in music, should be so artfully compounded out of long and short, out of accented and unaccented, as to gratify the sensual ear. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Besides, it would soon pall: imagine asking for three-kreuzer cigars in recitative, or giving the washerwoman the inventory of your dirty clothes in a sustained and flourishous aria. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Intonation.—The first two or three notes of a Gregorian chant introducing the recitative note; usually sung without the organ, by one of the Clergy or choir who is called the Cantor or Precentor. The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia Once more the tenor, who plays the part of narrator, enters, and in solo and recitative assures us how like a brave homunculus the Fay resisted her blandishments. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers He calls his verses “recitatives,” in easily followed allusion to a musical form. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) These verses he usually sang in a sort of recitative to some tune with which all were familiar,—and if a piano were at hand, he accompanied himself with a gentle strain of music. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 It was grand opera now, in French and Italian; with brilliant runs and trills and high, sustained crescendos that seemed almost to demand applause; and high-pitched, agitato recitatives. Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp Just before the Recapitulation, in measures 41-43, is an early example of Beethoven's fondness for instrumental recitative—music speaking with a more intimate appeal than words. Music: An Art and a Language I therefore confined myself to a plain division of it into airs, recitatives or choruses, looking upon the words in general so sacred as scarcely to violate one in the order of its first place. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers I recall a beautiful example of recitative in the "Iphigenia in Tauris." On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music It was morning before the guests departed, yet Hook remained to the last; and a light of other days brightened up his features, as he opened the piano, and began a recitative. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 The recitatives and solo airs would still further convey this meaning, while a chorale or hymn in four parts, with elaborate instrumental accompaniment, served to express the feelings of the whole congregation. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Berlioz's most pretentious orchestral composition is that called in the full title "Romeo and Juliet, dramatic symphony, with choruses, vocal solos, and a prologue in choral recitative, com216posed after Shakespeare's tragedy." Music: An Art and a Language Timotheus cries,” and the descriptive recitative, “Give the Vengeance due to the valiant Crew,” in which Handel employs his imitative powers with consummate effect. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers His father had started on the curious Chaldaic recitative that wound it up: One only kid, one only kid, which my father bought for two zuzim. Dreamers of the Ghetto And further, it maybe observed that the chant thus resulting, being like recitative, was much less clearly differentiated from ordinary speech than is our modern song. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I But the chaplain, peacefully awaiting, gently repeated his text after the chant, and to my great relief the old chorister waived all further recitative and let the funeral discourse proceed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 This opera is quite different from any previously written, in that the characters sing throughout in recitative now calm, now impassioned, but never in set, periodic arias. Music: An Art and a Language She enters, and in brief recitative tells her dream, in which she has seen the image of Faust, and discloses her love for him. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers One takes his guitar, and in a slow, drawling recitative sings a simple quatrain, which the other at once caps with a second in rhyme and rhythm matching the first. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 These pieces were joined up by any jumble of notes sung by the characters on the stage, usually with no artistic meaning whatsoever, known as the recitative. War Letters of a Public-School Boy After a few solos and recitatives, they tried one or two of the choruses. The First Violin A Novel The seer’s prophecies, the Psalmist’s strains, the evangelist’s narrative, the angels’ song, the anthem of the redeemed, are transferred to aria, recitative, and chorus. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden The third number is the description of the young Siddârtha, set in graceful recitative and semi-chorus for female voices, with a charming accompaniment. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Meanwhile Valentine has begun her recitative, "I am alone," etc.; but she hurries it. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories When we moved off in this order, the natives struck up a musical recitative, which, with various alternations, they continued until we arrived at the place of our destination. Typee A tenor voice was singing a recitative now, and that exquisite accompaniment, with a sort of joyful solemnity, still continued. The First Violin A Novel But the fault is the critic's, I think; to my ear these preliminaries sound rather like the recitative which goes before the grand aria. Birds in the Bush Then comes the recognition, briefly told in soprano recitative. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Saint Bris shouts the recitative which summons the Catholics to vengeance. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories The voice was soon on hand, and once more I was treated to the incomparable recitative. A Bird-Lover in the West From midnight on, we hear the clear, rhythmical, melancholy intonation of the precentor, the congregation responding in a monotonous recitative. Jewish Literature and Other Essays We will now speak of the conductor's method of beating in recitatives. The Orchestral Conductor Theory of His Art The king of the water-spirits is summoned; but before he rises from the water Melusina, in very melodious recitative, laments her lover’s treason. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers As a strong bird on pinions free, Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving, Such be the thought I'd think of thee America, Such be the recitative I'd bring for thee. The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman Then in a low chant, sweet and sorrowful, she repeated the story which each had told her, running them into a continuous recitative. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk “Will I go to London?” she warbled in a sort of improvised recitative. Ladies-In-Waiting Neither do I see why, in recitatives, the bar should not be divided regularly, and the real beats marked in their place, as in music beaten in time. The Orchestral Conductor Theory of His Art The work is divided into three parts, all choral, linked by recitatives. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers After desiring me in a surly tone, to call tomorrow morning, your worship mounted your vehicle, and scampered away to the region of recitative. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 The thrasher's nest I found was thirty or forty rods from the point where the male was wont to indulge in his brilliant recitative. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs The reading of each couplet by the minister before it was sung seemed to him a sort of recitative. Duffels For when the orchestra plays alone, it does so generally in time; it plays without measured time only when it accompanies a voice or instrument in recitative. The Orchestral Conductor Theory of His Art “Dramatic symphony, with choruses, solos, chant, and prologue in choral recitative” is the title which Berlioz gives to his “Romeo and Juliet.” The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Then Tasso, having said all this in one breathless, monotonous recitative, took the thousand francs out of his breast-pocket and held them out timidly towards the foreign gentleman, who motioned them aside and stood silent. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes The recitative was shrill, screaming, and monotonous; and the gondolier behind assisted his voice by holding his hand to one side of his mouth. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 The recitatives are very expressive, and their proper delivery necessitates a high degree of musical sensitiveness and experience in singing. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations It was to have its recitatives, its mediocre passages, the well and firmly handled parts of ordinary discourse. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 He says:— “At last, after much indecision, I hit upon the idea of a symphony, with choruses, vocal solos, and choral recitatives, on the sublime and ever novel theme of Shakspeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Andrew's voice came into the sick room in a mechanical recitative, as if accustomed to recount every particular of the day's doings. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) This chanter was a boy, and he sang out his hymn is a sort of loud melancholy recitative. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 After the recitatives, at measure 76, a coda begins, which brings the fantasia to an end. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations And he mimics operatic singers capitally, with sonorous words in mock Italian basso recitative. The History of "Punch" It is followed by the tenor recitative and aria, “Why hast Thou, O my God, in my sore Need so turned Thy Face from me?” in which the feeling of sorrow is intensified in utterance. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers His songs are written usually in a characteristic form of dramatic, yet lyric recitative. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions She did not like recitative in music, and preferred Wagner and Tschaikowsky to Bach and Verdi. The Music Master Novelized from the Play These cantatas were short oratorios consisting of choruses, solos, recitatives, instrumental movements, and were frequently of considerable elaboration. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations “Mistress Maude is bidden lay out herbs!” sang the gaoler in amateur recitative. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time The various melodies of which the whole is composed are the aria, with its subordinate species, the recitative or accompaniment, and the arioso, frequently also intermixed with choruses.” The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers These albums include three skilfully written "English Songs," and three "French Songs," "Soupir" taking the form of melodic recitative. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Now listen with bated breath to that recitative in the minor key,—that passionate wail, that touching story, the gypsies’ own music, which rises and falls on the air. The Gypsies In a short recitative, she excuses her misdeed, and then breaks out in an aria of sensuous sweetness, "With plaintive Notes and am'rous Moan, thus coos the Turtle left alone." The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers These are sung in alternate strains, one being generally a clamorous recitative, and the other a kind of choral fugue, strange and romantic, and heard with pleasing effect in the mountains. Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia In like manner the cantata for the fourteenth Sunday after Trinity has for its subject the story of the ten lepers, which is introduced in recitative form in the middle of the work. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers A tenor solo follows, its introductory recitative containing many fine things, its aria being smoothly melodious. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions And now, the recitative being ended, and the last chord struck, the melody begins, of which the former was the prelude. The Gypsies It comprises no less than twenty-eight massive double choruses, linked together by a few bars of recitative, with five arias and three duets interspersed among them. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers But for us who have heard the chorus first, the recitative seems poor and thin. John Lyly It was composed for the third Sunday after Trinity, June 17, and consists of eleven numbers,—an instrumental prelude, four choruses, three arias, a duet, and two recitatives. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Sir William, therefore, applied for permission to give operatic entertainments, "after the manner of the antients," the "story sung in recitative music," and the representation made "by the art of perspective in scenes." Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration The recitative stopped; there was a murmur of mingled voices, and footsteps. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain This remarkable number is separated from its natural companion, the bacchanalian chorus, by a recitative extolling the wealth of the vintage. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Why should it not do, I thought to myself, to act a drama in a kind of recitative based on this idea. My Reminiscences The cantata in its earliest form was a recitative, which speedily developed into a mixture of recitative and melody for a single voice, and was suggested by the lyric opera. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Their love-songs generally open with a sentimental recitative, and then change into actual singing, with frequent modulations from one key into another. In the Forbidden Land To tell the truth, this chant is only a recitative, broken off and taken up at pleasure. The Devil's Pool In Lucas's recitative we see the snow covering the fields, and in his following aria, "The Traveller stands perplexed," a graphic tone-picture of the wanderer lost in the snow is presented. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers This should include simple exercises, vocalises with and without words, songs of every description, arias of the lyric, dramatic, and coloratura type, and recitatives, as well as concerted numbers of every description. The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern Their singing is in a great measure recitative, with little variation of note. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity The arias and recitatives were finely given, but no effect was comparable to that of the grand chorus. In and Around Berlin The opening recitative of Vanderdecken in Der fliegende Holländer by Wagner would be absurd, and utterly out of harmony with the character and his surroundings, if sung in the open timbre. Style in Singing After a few bars for the instruments, Obadiah, in an exquisite recitative, counsels him to fly to the wilderness. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers His performances seem to be a sort of recitative, often resembling spoken words, rather than musical notes, many of which are short and guttural. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Then Miss Molly, having been helped off, came marching in, and greeted her friends with a recitative— “Lucy Locket lost her pocket; ‘Kitty Fisher found it!’” The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) In olden times all ballads were made to music, and the minstrel sang them to his harp or screamed them in recitative. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry It is, indeed, in the recitatives and declamatory passages of Gluck, Handel, Sacchini, that lyric artists will find unsurpassable material for study. Style in Singing The third act opens with the intensely dramatic scene with the Witch of Endor, the interview being preluded by the powerful recitative, "Wretch that I am!" The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers For the most part they are furnished with a kind of musical notation executed in vermilion; evidently intended to guide the reader in that peculiar recitative which is still customary in the oriental Church. The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels While the performers stood and went through with their motions, marching and countermarching, as they are said to have done, they chanted or recited in recitative some song, of which the following is an example. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula The opera of "Eurydice" is short, the printed copy containing only fifty-eight pages, and the music is almost entirely recitative. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Its importance and effect, particularly in recitative and declamatory singing, are analogous to the importance and effect of emphasis in spoken language. Style in Singing This masterpiece of imitative music is contained in a single recitative. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Yet, strange to say, they themselves are much interested while listening to these absurd recitatives. Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Instead of broad, flowing, but intelligible themes, a mongrel breed of recitative and parlando was to take their place. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques It consists of recitative, arias and choruses, some of which are extremely elaborate and highly dramatic. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present But frequently in the Recitatives of classic works occur phrases of declamatory recitative, interspersed with passages that are purely lyric in structure. Style in Singing As compared with the "Redemption," however, it is more interesting, because it is more melodious and less cumbered with recitative. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers They parted in the crowd, and Emilius walked toward the remote apartment, whence already from afar he heard his friend's loud recitative. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg We all saw then what a parody on Weber was this pretentious opera, with its patches of purple, its stale choruses, its tiresome recitatives. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques The second part of the fantasia is occupied by a succession of recitatives of an extremely graphic and poetic character. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Nay, in the earliest days of the Neapolitan school, still greater liberty was allowed; the recitatives were all improvised by the executants, and were not even noted down. Style in Singing Then follow eight more bars of recitative for tenor, and the long series of descriptive choruses begins, in which Handel employs the imitative power of music in the boldest manner. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers We are all in the same boat," resumed the Doctor in the deep tones which somehow sounded like bass recitative; "the Rector, Colonel Russell, and I—not to say Carey himself. A Houseful of Girls The restless tonalities, the agitated, passionate, desperate, dramatic recitatives, the emotional curve of the music, are not all these modern, only executed in such a transcendental fashion as to beggar imitation? Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Melodically and harmonically these recitatives are thoroughly modern and dramatic, the latter element being very forcibly represented by the succession of diminished sevenths on which the phrases of the recitative end. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present It was certainly well fitted to be one of the parents of the recitative of Peri and Caccini with the church chant as the other. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera The latter escapes; and in furious recitative Saul charges his son to destroy him. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers This consisted of an anthem, with an overture, solos, recitatives and choruses, accompanied by instruments, besides a vocal anthem in eight parts, which was not performed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" By what environment was it more justly appreciated, Saxon though the accents of its recitative might be? Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Here and there a chorus, occasionally a recitative, now and then an aria—always something to repay a careful hearing, and occasionally a master effect, such as only genius of the first order could produce. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present There was no union of the lyrics by any sort of recitative. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera It is followed by the bass recitative, "What God to Abraham revealed, He to the Shepherds doth accord to see fulfilled," and a brilliant aria for tenor, "Haste, ye Shepherds, haste to meet Him." The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Aria is likewise a style of vocal solo found in operas, etc., but its predominating characteristic is diametrically opposed to that of the recitative. Music Notation and Terminology There is a considerable amount of vocal wreckage strewn along the way, the result of wrestling with Wagnerian recitative. The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing The work is very cleverly arranged in a succession of recitatives, arias and choruses, following each other in a highly dramatic and effective manner. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 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. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera The chorus, written in a very noble style, is followed by the tenor recitative, which describes the divine call of our Lord to Simon and Andrew as "He walked by the Sea of Galilee." The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers But even in this latest phase of recitative, it is the word-text that decides the style of both melody and rhythm in the voice part. Music Notation and Terminology After which we have the charming recitative of Herr Tuden Links, to the infant, which is really one of the most charming gems in the performance: "Now, dern your skin, can't you be easy?" The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) The English have made much of Haydn's descriptive music in the accompanied recitatives. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Here are two examples of their treatment of passionate utterance in recitative. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera A contralto recitative links this chorus to its successor, "Behold! are not all these who speak Galileans?" The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Voices were lifted into weird minors and lugubrious tunes, recitative, of sad love themes—and these were, of course, addressed to Alexander. A Pagan of the Hills Followed by that touching recitative: "Shet up, or I will spank you!" The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) Here, among other works, he composed fifty Italian cantatas, usually consisting of two airs with recitative. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present With the advent of dramatic recitative the work ends. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera At its conclusion the parable begins with tenor recitative and solo, "A certain man had two sons," in which the Prodigal asks for his portion of goods. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Sometimes, now, she looked almost as funny, when she sat down to the piano and gave forth a recitative. Franklin Kane They were all hymns and ballads of a minacious description, now one and now another of which he kept repeating in lugubrious recitative. Alec Forbes of Howglen The declamation and the dramatic treatment of the recitative were the points upon which his attention principally dwelt. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 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. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera The second part is devoted to the creation, and is composed principally of choruses introduced by a few bars of recitative, invariably for the tenor, who acts the part of narrator. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers The piece is a finely-elaborated recitative fully equal to the requirements of grand opera. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays The "music" began to be heard, a measured monotone of drums, a breath of voices in a recitative chant, slightly impassioned by that vanished gallon. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story This differs essentially from the descriptive recitative in the works of the Mozart or Gluck period, or even in those of Haydn's later time. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present It was not till some years later that recitative acquired sufficient flexibility to fit itself into the plan of the rapidly growing opera buffa. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera A Shepherd, in brief recitative passages, declares to Mary, "Blessed art thou among Women," followed by the soprano solo, "My Soul doth magnify the Lord." The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers This tradition gives additional value to Pepys's musical setting in recitative of the "To be or not to be" soliloquy. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays The note was deep and full, like a solemn recitative, as if Nature's diurnal harmonies had sunk to this one transitional key. The Mayor of Warwick In the "Creation," for example, the descriptive recitative consists of vocal phrases with instrumental phrases interspersed, in dialogue form. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present As Thayer remarks: "To follow a recitative or aria through all its guises is an extremely fatiguing task, and the almost countless studies for a duet or terzet are enough to make one frantic." Chopin and Other Musical Essays The Gospel text is in recitative form throughout, the part of the evangelist, or narrator, being assigned to a tenor voice, while those of the persons incidentally introduced are given to other singers. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Following this triumphant overture, a recitative bass solo repeats I Cor. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes The recitative of the sixteenth century gave it prominence, and it passed into instrumental music. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Then Mrs. Jack Evarts whispered so audibly to a man at her side that she broke in upon Margaret's clear recitative. The Butterfly House Then from out the haze of blue smoke, like the voice of an oracle from the seclusion of a shrine, issued the familiar recitative tone for which everybody had been waiting. An Alabaster Box Carissimi perfected the recitative and invested the music with more importance, giving it something like equal rank with the dramatic character of the composition. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers The first imitation is called "A New Year's Ode," and contains three recitatives, three airs and a chorus. The Social History of Smoking He invested recitative with classic value, enlarged the aria, and devised the da capo which became a menace to dramatic truth. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Even the second tale seems to lack the engaging spontaneity of the first, and already to grow didactic and recitative rather than personal. Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book Mrs. Carew's rosy lip curled scornfully: "My dear Miss Neville, should you ever be smitten by the blasts of adversity, your charming recitative talent would prove wonderfully remunerative upon the stage." Infelice Burney, who examined the score, says: "The recitative is in general excellent, and there is scarce a movement among the airs in which genius, skill, and study do not appear." The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Solos are seldom written for this instrument in orchestral music, though Beethoven, with his daring recitatives in the Ninth Symphony, makes it a mediator between the instrumental and vocal forces. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art Possessing feeling for orchestration to an unusual degree for his time, he grouped musical instruments of different timbres with marked boldness and skill, and was the first specially to orchestrate recitative. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music In the recitative which accompanies the entrance of the tenor in this opera, the singer has to attack B flat without preparation, and hold it for a long time. Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens Others might sing an air better, but no one could give to either airs or recitatives accentuation more pure or more impassioned, action more dramatic, and by-play more eloquent. Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag Like the opera, it has its recitative, linking together and leading up to the various numbers. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers The dry form of recitative is met with now only in a few of the operas which date back to the last century or the early years of the present. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art To him may be attributed the first dramatic recitative. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music In his recitatives the sound is continually in opposition to the sense, though they occasionally contain happy declamatory passages.... Great Italian and French Composers But neither was Italian, and consequently both were deficient in recitative. Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag As the chorale dies away, the narrative is resumed, leading up to another chorale, "For us to earth he cometh poor," combined with an orchestral symphony and bass recitative. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers The dry recitative was supported by chords played by a double-bass and harpsichord or pianoforte. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art He established the overture, gave recitative rhetorical force, added coloring to the orchestra, and introduced the ballet. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music In it there is but little recitative, and in the treatment of the chorus we find the method which Verdi afterward came to use exclusively. Great Italian and French Composers Her recitative, from the moment she entered, was riveting by its truth. Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag Burney assigns to it the credit of being "the first sacred drama or oratorio in which recitative was used." The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers The French have Grand Opéra, in which everything is sung to orchestra accompaniment, there being neither spoken dialogue nor dry recitative, and Opéra comique, in which the dialogue is spoken. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art He attempted no reform, but his instinct for the true relation between the accents of speech and those of melody and recitative seems to have been unerring. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Lulli could only sustain his vocal psalmody by a simple bass; Rameau accompanied almost all his recitatives with the orchestra. Great Italian and French Composers Thus, the declamatory music became of great importance, and Gluck's recitative reached an unequaled degree of perfection. The Great German Composers It has been noticed also by Biblical scholars that these peculiarities are more marked in the narrative than in the recitative parts of the gospels in question. Companion to the Bible In the majority of the operas of the current list the vocal element illustrates an amalgamation of the archaic recitative and aria. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art His broad, simple treatment of chords enhanced the purity and beauty of everything he wrote, and in his hand recitative gained character, grace and musical expressiveness. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music He has the ambitions, the faculties, of a lyric poet, and he gives us too frequently recitative. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture His opera, then, is no longer a congeries of separate musical numbers, like duets, arias, chorals, and finales, set in a flimsy web of formless recitative, without reference to dramatic economy. The Great German Composers Repeat a nursery rhyme, no matter what, in a humdrum recitative; he is sober, and very attentive. Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse Spoken with the vivacity native to it in the drama, dry recitative is an impossibility in English. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art A second section of the sonata commences with the recitative phrase of the opening of the work, only in A minor. The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development A celestial music is heard by turns, and the verse following, in recitative, is murmured in a dull and almost hoarse tone. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy The concert was already going on, when it was discovered that the short recitative which precedes the "Coronation Hymn," and which the public had in the printed text, was lacking in the voice parts. The Great German Composers Some that they rehearse, in a kind of recitative, at their bimbangs or feasts, are historical love tales like our old English ballads, and are often extemporaneous productions. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants The growth of the accompanied recitative naturally brought with it emancipation from the tyranny of the classical aria. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art 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. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life When the sweet choristers resume their strain, hope revives; but when the verse of recitative begins, a cold sensation seizes upon the hearer, not caused by terror, but by a repression of enthusiasm. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy The continuous flow of beautiful melody takes the place alike of the dry recitative and the set musical forms which characterize the accepted school of opera. The Great German Composers 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. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Therefore, the distinctions between recitative and aria were abolished, and an "endless melody" took the place of both. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art That recitative—beyond which, by the way, the Chinese and Hindoos seem never to have advanced—grew naturally out of the modulations and cadences of strong feeling, we have indeed still current evidence. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library 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. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 He elaborated the recitative or declamatory element in opera with great care, and insisted that his singers should make this the object of their most careful efforts. The Great German Composers In France we have never had—apart from a few attempts in opéra-comique—a recitative that exactly expressed our natural speech. Musicians of To-Day Of all the factors in an opera, the dry recitative is the most monotonous. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art And the known fact that out of epic poetry the stronger passions developed lyrical poetry as their appropriate vehicle, strengthens the inference that they similarly developed lyrical music out of recitative. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library But not to leave a note of them even in the recitatives! Musical Memories He sat down directly at a table, and composed the music for the recitative and the orchestral accompaniment in about half an hour. The Great German Composers We wish to have free speech in music—a sustained recitative, infinite variety, and, in short, complete liberty in musical utterance. Musicians of To-Day In the final scene, when the Dutchman goes off, Senta can say nothing more after her declarations in the second—nothing, that is, of any musical value; and Wagner has wisely confined her to recitative. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas And if, as we have good reason to believe, recitative arose by degrees out of emotional speech, it becomes manifest that by a continuance of the same process song has arisen out of recitative. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library He also liked to declaim the magnificent recitative of Pilgrimage in the third act of Tannhauser. Musical Memories This monotonous, and to European ears, strangely nonchalant, nasal recitative, is being continually interrupted by gong pounding and the shrill, high sound of discordant reed instruments. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University On 20 September he was seized while he was working at the great recitative of Manuel Venegas in the first act. Musicians of To-Day Bach and Mozart knew how to write recitative, but they rarely attempted to fill it with anything approaching the intensity of meaning with which this terrible recitative is filled. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas The speaking voice, the recitative voice, and the singing voice, severally exemplify one general principle. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Madame Viardot sang to them a wonderful work with recitative, aria and final allegro, which they praised to the skies. Musical Memories So there only remained the recitative in which true dramatic art could find place. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University In his own musical architecture one finds well-marked airs, numerous recitatives, Gregorian or Palestrinian choruses, chorales with developments and variations in the old style, and intervening symphonies of some importance. Musicians of To-Day The vocal parts are neither recitative nor true song; the orchestral tide is developed in much the same symphonic style as in Tannhäuser. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas The use in recitative and song of inflections more expressive than ordinary ones, must from the beginning have tended to develop the ordinary ones. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library The dialogue, or recitative, which should bind them together was lost and so we are unable to judge them fairly. Musical Memories But the circumstances of the case made it almost as impossible, as it would have been uninteresting, to be merely recitative and colourless; and Mr Arnold’s own example gives ample licence. Matthew Arnold And so a reform in recitative was inevitable. Musicians of To-Day And then comes the noblest piece of recitative in all music. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas For recitative, or musical recitation, is in all respects intermediate between speech and song. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library 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. Musical Memories There is no question that the rhythmic forms of recitative poetry differ vastly from those of instrumental music and chanted speech. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. This is the very definition of Debussy's recitative. Musicians of To-Day Siegmund's declamation is a fine example of Wagner's finest vocal writing at this period—the style which I have referred to as something between recitative and true song. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas 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. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library His melody was wavering and uncertain, oftentimes more a recitative than melody properly so called, and it was entirely his own. Musical Memories His 'Artaxerxes,' which was produced in 1762, was constructed strictly upon the lines of Italian opera, being made up throughout entirely of airs and recitative. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. This reform is concerned with several things, and, first of all, with recitative. Musicians of To-Day That is, it remains metrical without the slightest tendency to fall into regular four-bar measure, or any other regular measure; yet it decidedly is not recitative. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas For lyrical poetry differs from epic poetry, just as lyrical music differs from recitative: each still further intensifies the natural language of the emotions. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library The religious ceremony in the fourth act and the Brahmin recitative accompanied by the pizzicati of the bass may be mentioned as an indication of this. Musical Memories The reformers, therefore, dismissed spoken dialogue from their drama, and employed in its place a species of free declamation or recitative, which they called musica parlante. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Frenzied whirlwinds of passion stop suddenly to give place to recitatives of explanation or argument. Musicians of To-Day |
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