Editing Recitative (section)

==''Accompagnato'' (or ''obbligato'')==
Accompanied recitative, known as ''accompagnato'' or ''stromentato'', employs the [[orchestra]] as an accompanying body. The composer writes an arrangement for the orchestra musicians. As a result, it is less improvisational and declamatory than ''recitativo secco'', and more [[song]]-like. This form is often employed where the orchestra can underscore a particularly dramatic text, as in "[[Messiah Part I#5|Thus saith the Lord]]" from Händel's ''[[Messiah (Handel)|Messiah]]''; [[Joseph Haydn]] and [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] were also fond of it. A more inward intensification calls for an [[arioso]]; the opening of "[[Messiah Part I#2|Comfort ye]]" from the same work is a famous example, while the ending of it ("The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness") is ''secco''.

Sometimes a distinction is made between the more dramatic, expressive, or interjecting 'orchestral recitative' (''recitativo obbligato'' or ''stromentato'') and a more passive and sustained 'accompanied recitative' (''recitativo accompagnato'').<ref>{{Cite Grove |author= |title=Orchestral recitative}} {{full citation needed|date=July 2020}}</ref>