10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RECITATIVE»
Discover the use of
recitative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
recitative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Harvard Dictionary of Music
Recitative [Fr. recitative: Ger. Rezitativ; It., Sp. recitativo]. A style of text setting that
imitates and emphasizes the natural inflections, rhythms, and syntax of speech.
Such a setting avoids extremes of pitch and intensity and repetition of words, ...
2
The Art of Conducting Technique: A New Perspective
Farberman, Harold. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX SUMMARY There are two basic
groups of recitative: the accompanied recitative with instruments, and the secco
or 'dry' recitative with continuo. Recitatives allow singers interpretive freedom
which ...
3
Schoenberg and the New Music: Essays by Carl Dahlhaus
The title Arnold Schoenberg gave to the last of his Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16,
The Obbligato Recitative' [Das obligate Rezitativ], seems puzzling and self-
contradictory if the words obbligato and recitative are taken to mean what they do
in ...
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Songs, Duetts,
Recitative, &c. &c. in the Grand Opera of The ...
Vincenzo Bellini, Felice Romani . □ -1 Mus 589 .479 .17 Songs, duetts, recitative,
&c &e Loeb.
Vincenzo Bellini, Felice Romani, 1836
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Solos, Duets, Trios,
Recitative ... in Rossini's celebrated ...
What answer will ye make it 1 Arnold. , To arms 2 Tell and Walter. To arms ! !
CHORUS. To arms '. '. ! END OF THE SECOND ACT. ACT lIl. SCENE l.-Interior of
a Ruined Chapel, in the Garden of the Palace of Altorf, ' RECITATIVE. Matilda.
Victor Joseph ÉTIENNE DE JOUY (and BIS (Hippolyte Louis Florent)), Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, Alfred BUNN, 1838
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Singing in Style: A Guide to Vocal Performance Practices
Recitative The rules for Classical recitative remain similar to those for recitative in
Baroque music. The words are the most important element for determining the
rhythm, tempo, and character of the music. According to Corri, recitative ...
7
A Short History of Opera
Its function was to carry on the action in dialogue with the slightest possible
musical accompaniment.50 Although audiences as a rule gave it little attention,
the recitative semplice was not altogether a perfunctory matter. Certain
conventions of ...
Donald Jay Grout, Hermine Weigel Williams, 2003
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A History of Baroque Music
Lully's recitative is exceedingly complex and therefore cannot be described in a
simple formulation. And because the composer's operatic style, including the
recitative, underwent a continuous development, generalities about any aspect of
...
An in-depth look at these recitative styles as they relate to the singing voice
would constitute a major musicological study yet to be undertaken by experts,
and the subject is here mentioned only in passing. Our aim of the moment is the
practical ...
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The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians
In French music of the 17th and 18th centuries, a passage or a complete
composition (e.g., an aria) for solo voice or, in the later part of this period and
beyond, for a solo instrument; not the same as *recitative, though a recit may be
in recitative ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RECITATIVE»
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recitative is used in the context of the following news items.
Princeton Festival Opens Opera Season With A Spirited Mozart …
One could easily apply this comment to Mozart's 1786 opera Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro); with four acts filled with recitative and arias, Figaro is ... «Town Topics, Jun 15»
Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists Perform What May …
Even with this first opera, Monteverdi tested the limits of harmony and sonority at the time, using word-painting and a smooth synthesis of recitative and aria to ... «Town Topics, May 15»
Yale Baroque Opera Project to stage rarely performed piece
Grant Herreid, the production's musical director, said that 17th-century operas mostly consist of two elements: the recitative and the aria. The recitative refers to ... «Yale Daily News, Apr 15»
St Matthew Passion, Anton Bruckner Choir, St John's Smith Square
By embracing that power, singing Bach's recitative fully and well, keeping it on the voice almost all the time (with just the occasional anything-Gilchrist-can-do ... «The Arts Desk, Mar 15»
American Bach Soloists Perform the St. Matthew Passion
Early in Part I of the St. Matthew Passion comes the first Recitative, “Du lieber Heiland du” (“You dear Savior, you”), beautifully sung here by Hungarian ... «Berkeley Daily Planet, Mar 15»
Why did IU Opera Ban Applause?
Maestro Fagen's musical leadership consistently compressed that space between aria and recitative, so much so that it ceased to be perceptible. In doing this ... «Indiana Daily Student, Feb 15»
The George London Foundation Series, Featuring Angela Meade
She was finishing the recitative that leads into “Non mi dir,” one of Donna Anna's arias from Mozart's “Don Giovanni,” and she sent up a floating high note, like a ... «New York Times, Jan 15»
Handel's MESSIAH at Grace Cathedral
A recitative for tenor, “Comfort ye,” sung here by Kyle Stegall, follows in somewhat sluggish fashion, followed by a vernal breath of fresh air in the tenor's aria, ... «Berkeley Daily Planet, Dec 14»
Jennifer Bartlett's "Epic Systems" at Cleveland Museum of Art …
A detail of "Recitative," on view in the "Epic Systems" Jennifer Bartlett ... recently acquired by the museum as a gift from Agnes Gund; and "Recitative," from 2010. «The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, Oct 14»
Hymn Book of Less-Than-Common Prayer
Bach broke with this trend by restoring the actual Gospel narrative—delivered as recitative by the tenor Evangelist and by soloists representing Jesus, Peter and ... «Wall Street Journal, Oct 14»
