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Recitative is a kind of singing in an opera (a play that is sung). One person sings the words, but it sounds closer to speaking than to a big song. Composers use it to keep the story moving between the famous songs: people tell news, make plans, argue. The music follows the rise and fall of speech more than a tune you would hum on the way home. It is a specialist word; you will almost never hear it outside music and theatre. Though actually, some modern musicals do something similar when a character half-sings the dialogue. It can also be used as an adjective: recitative passages, recitative style.
宣敘調
組成From Italian recitativo, from recitare (to recite, to speak aloud), from Latin recitō. So it is “reciting” carried on a line of music.
同家族的字
- recitesame Latin recitō: to say a text aloud, often from memory
- recitationthe act of reciting
- recitalalso from recite; now usually a concert, not this opera style
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
recitativenoun/ɹɛsɪtəˈtiːv/
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entertainmentlifestylemusicdialogue, in an opera etc, that, rather than being sung as an aria, is reproduced with the rhythms of normal speech, often with simple musical accompaniment or harpsichord continuo, serving to expound the plot.
- In Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, Bunthorne performs the recitative "Am I Alone and Unobserved?" before going on to his solo aria "If You're Anxious For To Shine".
recitativeadj/ɹɛˈsaɪtətɪv/
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of a recital
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。