accompagnatoadj.n.

1825 J. F. Danneley Encycl. Music Accompagnato,..accompanied.

1902 A. W. Patterson Story of Oratorio xiii. 197 Such a recitative as this ‘Comfort ye’ by Handel..is technically described as accompagnato..and differs very little from melodic song.

1956 Notes 13 299/1 We follow the early evolution of social characterization in operatic music, of the ‘accompagnato’ recitative, and most other ingredients of the later opera seria.

2007 Amer. Rec. Guide (Electronic ed.) 70 244 What we are given is excerpts: the Overture and Act I Introduzione, an accompagnato recitative, and five arias from that act.

1878 E. Pauer Musical Forms 70 With regard to the accompaniment of the recitative we recognise (1) the ‘secco’, or simple, and (2) the ‘accompagnato’, the fully accompanied recitative.

1915 D. G. Mason Art of Music II. 16 The development of the recitative from mere heightened declamation to a free arioso, fully accompanied, and to the accompagnato not followed by an aria at all.

1970 B. Hopkins tr. W. Kolneder Antonio Vivaldi 58 The secco accompaniment of the bass (that is, the accompaniment for only the basso continuo) is transformed into an accompagnato (in other words the orchestra takes over the accompaniment of the solo).

1985 R. Strohm Ess. on Handel & Ital. Opera 198 Handel wanted to perform it with as few changes as possible, including the accompagnati, which in other comparable cases he had replaced by simple recitatives.

2011 Opera News (Electronic ed.) Mar. 61 Elettra also sings a longer version of her final accompagnato than is printed.