In expelling the piano from the orchestra Rossini at the same time, did away with those interminable recitatives accompanied by piano or piano and double bass which separated the musical pieces in the works composed by Rossini's predecessors.
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 recitatives seem long, and they are interminable compared with those by which Verdi connects his musical pieces.
Most of the other recitatives have an obbligato accompaniment, in which a motif bearing figurative reference to some prominent image in the text is worked out.
The recitatives are very expressive, and their proper delivery necessitates a high degree of musical sensitiveness and experience in singing.
She declaims recitatives admirably and it is a pleasure to listen to her sing arias di parlante.
Insist firmly and sharply that the singers perform in decisive and lively tempo what they take to be recitatives in my opera.
I have been assured that the recitatives were not attacked by the singers as I had performed them to my friends at the piano.
The study of Handel's recitatives and airs raises perhaps the greatest problem of artistic interpretation--that of vocal ornamentation.
They are not merely isolated recitatives or preambles to an extended solo.
Finally a sort of presentiment of the leit-motiv, and its psychological employment in Belshazzar, should be noticed, where certain instrumental phrases and recitativesseem attached to the character of Nitocris.
Carl Maria von Weber admired Mehul's opera greatly, and within recent years Felix Weingartner has edited a German edition for which he composed recitatives to take the place of the spoken dialogue of the original book.
Frenzied whirlwinds of passion stop suddenly to give place to recitatives of explanation or argument.
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.
The second part of the fantasia is occupied by a succession of recitatives of an extremely graphic and poetic character.
Otello" marks the end of the interminable recitatives with an accompaniment of piano or piano and double bass by which the rare musical pieces were separated in the serious works of Rossini's predecessors.
In regard to the recitatives and their accompaniments "Tancredi" is indeed somewhat antiquated.
Berlioz tried it with "Der Freischuetz" and appears to have failed; nor have the "Freischuetz" recitatives by Costa seemingly fared any better.
For this performance Costa wrote recitatives to replace the dialogue.
Words and melody are retained, but between the stanzas occur recitatives and metrical airs, or ariosos, for solo voices in the nature of commentaries or reflections on the sentiment of the hymn or the gospel lesson for the day.
The recitatives which they wrote had the fluency of spoken words and were not retarded by melodic forms.
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.
For instance, take the recitatives in "The Messiah," as these are printed for the British public.
Nothing could be more ludicrous than for a singer to appear in public and sing the recitatives faithfully as printed in the editions of this oratorio which are continually being disseminated throughout the land.
To have recitatives of this kind in opera, and only sometimes, when the words are readily expressible in music, to have them sung.
The variety and wealth of harmonic transitions in these recitativesis astonishing.
Between the fourth and fifth acts was a cantabile with recitatives for the English horn, and then the arioso again, which accorded very well with the sadness of the preceding scene and with the following act.
He said to Baron Viereck and Herr von Castel, "I have always been used to have a hand in my own part, in the recitatives as well as the songs; but I have left this just as it was.
A reminiscence of French opera is evident in the treatment of the recitatives as well as in the important part allotted to the chorus.
I am very busy writing choruses and recitatives to Auber's Domino Noir, which is to be given for Artôt's benefit.
The translation of the libretto and arrangement of the recitatives of Mozart's Figaro, which Tchaikovsky undertook (at the desire of N.
Recitatives and choruses for Le Domino Noir, by Auber.
She is coming here, and I cannot avoid a meeting, because immediately after her arrival we begin the rehearsals for Le Domino Noir (for which I have writtenrecitatives and choruses), which I shall be compelled to attend.
For accompanying the solo voices in arias and recitatives the Gedact 8 feet was usually used alone, and was sometimes therefore called the "Musik gedact": it is the same as the English stopped diapason.
It consists mostly of chorales in four parts with short recitatives between them.
Sometimes recitatives break the course of the chorale melody, or the melody is played by the instruments and accompanied by vocal recitative.
These recitatives are sustained by the orchestra; Otello, Mosè in Egitto, are written after the same system, but I will not attribute to Rossini the honour of a discovery which belongs to our neighbours.
Here is a specimen of the recitative or chant with the German text: [Musical Notation] These recitatives are in a style exactly like that of the early French church plays.
In the printed score there are twenty-six pieces, not counting the overture; but the obbligatorecitatives are counted separately here, and not in the original score.
The French comedy was of wonderful advantage in maintaining the dialogue; and, shortened and modified as it was of necessity, it retained far more of the spirit and life of the original than was usual in the recitatives of opera buffa.
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.
Lulli could only sustain his vocal psalmody by a simple bass; Rameau accompanied almost all his recitatives with the orchestra.
In his recitatives the sound is continually in opposition to the sense, though they occasionally contain happy declamatory passages.
Carafa arranged the recitatives and wrote the ballet music.
In 1841 it was again given in Paris, with an accurate translation of the text by Pacini, and recitatives added by Berlioz, as "Le Franc Archer.
In the second scene Figaro enters, and after some brief recitatives sings the celebrated buffo aria, "Largo al factotum," in which he gives an account of his numerous avocations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recitatives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
