What is the difference between a Recitative and an Aria?
Channel: Team Tenor
Date: 2021-05-22

What is the difference between a recitative and an aria?

In opera and oratorio music, recitatives and arias play a major role in how the story is portrayed.
Recitatives are used to narrate or recite the dialogue and storyline in the opera or oratorio faster and more efficient using minimum accompaniment. 

Two types of Recitative;

1.Recitative Secco
2.Recitative Accompagnato

Arias are used with complex accompaniment to express more complex emotions from musicians. 

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