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Recitative has also sometimes been used to refer to parts of purely instrumental works which resemble vocal recitatives, in terms of their musical style. In an instrumental recitative, one instrument (or group of instruments) are given the melody line (akin to the role of the singer) and another
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Trope violations: the transition between recitative and aria, and subtle violations on the above 'tropes' are what make some recitatives more creative than others. For example, Bach's use of a plagal cadence; sometimes more than one voice is used ; and sometimes a deceptive cadence replaces the
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Recitative chord progressions: The chord progressions in recitative avoid resolutions and rely heavily on dominant sevenths and diminished chords to postpone the resolution. In the extreme, the instrument(s) start the dialog with a diminished chord, moving from non-resolution to non-resolution,
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Recitative cadences: The dialog ends with the instruments. Invariably the instrument(s) complete the final dominant-tonic cadence. Also, typically the voice stops on or before the dominant chord and then the instrument(s) execute a return to the tonic. Occasionally the subdominant-tonic
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Recitative is a dialogue between a (usually) solo voice and an instrument or instruments. Usually the voice and instrument(s) alternate, or share a chord while one continues. In this way the speech-like rhythm of the singer does not need to be coordinated and synchronized with the
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or ensemble, where the pulse is entirely governed by the music. Secco recitatives can be more improvisatory and free for the singer, since the accompaniment is so sparse; in contrast, when recitative is accompanied by orchestra, the singer must perform in a more structured way.
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shows the simple accompaniment for a recitative; much of the time, the basso continuo (the lower staff in bass clef) play half notes and whole notes underneath the vocalist's recitative part.
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and wishing to recreate the old manner of storytelling and drama, pioneered the use of a single melodic line to tell the story, accompanied by simple chords from a harpsichord or lute.
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as an accompanying body. The composer writes an arrangement for the orchestra musicians. As a result, it is less improvisational and declamatory than
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Recitative can be distinguished on a continuum from more speech-like to more musically sung, with more sustained melodic lines. The mostly syllabic
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in concertante style (i.e. with soloists). In the second movement of that work, the violinist is the soloist in an instrumental recitative.
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which standardize recitative; so that, in practice, recitative is a rigid musical form. The following are standard tropes of recitative:
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instrument (or group of instruments) are given the accompaniment role. One of the earliest examples is found in the slow movement of
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era, recitatives were commonly rehearsed on their own by the stage director, the singers frequently supplying their own favourite
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Sometimes a distinction is made between the more dramatic, expressive, or interjecting 'orchestral recitative' (
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recitatives were accompanied by a variety of instruments, mostly plucked fretted strings including the
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is also an instrumental recitative, although Owen Jander interprets it as a dialogue.
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included instrumental recitative in his "Prussian" piano sonatas of 1742, composed at
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Instead the violoncello was left to carry on alone, or with reinforcement from a
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recitatives, popularized in Florence though the proto-opera music dramas of
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used the instrumental recitative in at least three works, including
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were also fond of it. A more inward intensification calls for an
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building up to a temporary or final cadence, as described above.
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Ordinary speech-like singing in opera, cantata, mass or oratorio
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dominant-tonic cadence, as a way of appending a new section.
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has also been staged as a musical rather than as an opera.
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In the early operas and cantatas of the Florentine school,
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Jander, Owen (1985), "Beethoven's 'Orpheus in Hades': The
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during the late 16th century, formed the substance of
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composers to employ instrumental recitative include
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Lessner: '"Gounod: Ear for Melody" in 660:, being put to ironic use in the finale of 1167: 1153: 1145: 484:, the accompaniment was standardised as a 807:recitative as part of its Introduction). 525:methods of the period and some scores of 120:Learn how and when to remove this message 1081:, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1024:, eds. (2001). "Orchestral recitative". 656:Recitative is also occasionally used in 376:(1821, adapted 1841 with recitatives by 978: 955: 227:) is a style of delivery (much used in 1093:Mediaeval Music: An Historical Sketch 645:Later operas, under the influence of 222: 7: 58:adding citations to reliable sources 547:, the instrument being supplied by 1109:of the Fourth Piano Concerto", in 884:There are certain conventions, or 25: 1739:Formal sections in music analysis 823:", and also composed a piece for 572:Accompanied recitative, known as 410:with recitatives respectively by 281:, such as the tones used for the 217:, also known by its Italian name 838:Quintet for Clarinet and Strings 715:, which is marked "Recitative". 175: 34: 780:accompaniment to represent the 309:The first use of recitative in 45:needs additional citations for 1: 723:'s court in Berlin. 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Lascia ch'io pianga
J.S. Bach
Cantata 140, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"
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arioso
aria
Gregorian chant
epistle
gospel
preface

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