recitativelyadv.
/ˌrɛsᵻtəˈtiːvli/, U.S. /ˌrɛsədəˈtivli/ Music.
In a recitative style.
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1702 Lett. on Q. Anne's Going to St. Paul's in H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. (1818) (at cited word) The jubilee was sung in the same manner, after which the office was performed only recitatively; no organs made use of.
1853 W. W. Story Let. 11 Feb. in G. R. Hudson Browning to Amer. Friends (1965) 271 The Cushman sings savage ballads in a hoarse manny voice, & requests people recitatively to forget her not.
1873 E. Eggleston Myst. Metropolisville ix. 87 He..sang in a quite affecting way..and added touchingly and recitatively the words ‘by George! he! he!’
1936 E. Jolas tr. H. Ball Sound Poems in Transition Autumn 160 I began to sing my vowel lines recitatively, in the style of the church.
2003 I. C. Levy John Wyclif vi. 310 The words demonstrate nothing, since they are only pronounced recitatively in the name of Christ.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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