Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, with instrumental accompaniment. See
recitative .
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Examples
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The _recitativo stromentato_, or accompanied recitative, was only used to emphasise situations of special importance.
The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. J. A. [Commentator] Fuller-Maitland 1892
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This form of vocal delivery has the slightest possible musical interest, and the Germans almost immediately endeavored to improve it, as also did some of the Italian masters, the first result being _recitativo-stromentato_, or instrumented recitative, viz., recitative in which the text is accompanied by a flowing and more or less descriptive orchestral accompaniment.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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_recitativo secco_, or unaccompanied recitative, which until now had been the principal dependence for the movement of the drama, he added the _recitativo stromentato_, or accompanied recitative, in which the instruments afforded a dramatic coloring for the text of the singer.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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