Recitative
in music, a species of musical declamation, not necessarily in rhythmical form, but so arranged or designed signed as to assimilate musical sounds as It is used in operas, oratorios, etc., to nearly as possible to ordinary speech. relate a story, to express some action or passion, or to reveal a secret or design, and is of two kinds, unaccompanied and accompanied, the latter being the more common in modern music. Also, a piece of music intended to be sung in recitative.