Answer: recitatives

AnswerCrossword Clue
RECITATIVESOratorical musical performance.
RECITATIVESPortions of an opera.
RECITATIVESCertain passages in opera.
recitativesMusical declamation of the kind usual in the narrative and dialogue parts of opera and oratorio, sung in the rhythm of ordinary speech with many words on the same note
recitativesRECITATIVE, a style of musical declamation, between singing and ordinary speech, used esp in the dialogue and narrative parts of an opera or oratorio also RECITATIVO