Definitions for recitativo

recitativo rec·i·ta·ti·vo

Spelling: [res-i-tuh-tee-voh; Italian re-chee-tah- Recitativo is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

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Definitions for recitativo

noun

  1. recitative2 .

Origin of recitativo

Borrowed into English from Italian around 1610-20

Examples for recitativo

In his "Otello" he abandoned the old recitativo secco and produced an opera with recitativo stromentato throughout.

The words I did not understand, and so know not how they are fitted, but believe very well, and all in the recitativo very fine.

The extreme development of recitativo stromentato is to be found in Wagner's later dramas, in which entire scenes are made of it.

Alessandro Scarlatti was the first to make systematic use of that richer form of recitation known as recitativo stromentato.

You will say that a recitativo can be but a poor Specimen of our Music.

The first of these was the recitativo secco, which means "dry recitative."

The most important of all these improvements was the abandonment of recitativo secco.

This duet, charged with exotic rapture, opens with recitativo phrases for Ada.

It must consist of poetic passages connected by recitativo, to use an opera word; but it is perhaps better for that.

In his Matthew Passion and some of his cantatas the organist is to play short chords in recitativo secco.

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