Recitativo

He stalked out into the verandah, put his hands in his pockets, and resumed the Recitativo of Moses, sotto voce, in the garden.

The Woman in White 2003

'Recitativo -- the rhythm excellent, and the tone well sustained.

A Group of Noble Dames Thomas Hardy 1884

He stalked out into the verandah, put his hands in his pockets, and resumed the Recitativo of Moses, sotto voce, in the garden.

The Woman in White 1860

-- ` Recitativo of Moses with the tables of the Law. '

The Woman in White 1860

He stalked out into the verandah, put his hands in his pockets, and resumed the Recitativo of

The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 1856

These plays, during the civil war, were acted in Stilo Recitativo, but afterwards enlarged, and acted with applause at the Duke's theatre.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II Theophilus Cibber 1730

- Hor. THERE is nothing that [has] more startled our English Audience, than the Italian Recitativo at its first Entrance upon the Stage.

Spectator, April 3, 1711 1711

The only Fault I find in our present Practice, is the making use of Italian Recitativo with English Words.

Spectator, April 3, 1711 1711

Recitativo, as Orpheus used to serve the wild Beasts in his time, and. afterwards to knock him on the head; some fancied that the Lion would not pretend to lay his Paws upon the Hero, by

Spectator, March 15, 1711 1711

I would not however debar the Poet from concluding his Tragedy, or, if he pleases, every Act of it, with two or three Couplets, which may have the same Effect as an Air in the Italian Opera after a long Recitativo, and give the Actor a graceful

Spectator, April 14, 1711 1711