Dictionary Definition
recital
Noun
1 the act of giving an account describing
incidents or a course of events; "his narration was hesitant" [syn:
narration, yarn]
2 performance of music or dance especially by
soloists
3 a public instance of reciting or repeating
(from memory) something prepared in advance; "the program included
songs and recitations of well-loved poems" [syn: recitation, reading]
4 a detailed statement giving facts and figures;
"his wife gave a recital of his infidelities"
5 a detailed account or description of something;
"he was forced to listen to a recital of his many
shortcomings"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.
- A telling in detail and due order of the particulars of anything, as of a law, an adventure, or a series of events; narration.
- That which is recited; a story; a narration.
- A vocal or instrumental performance by one person; -- distinguished from concert; as, a song recital; an organ, piano, or violin recital.
- The formal statement, or setting forth, of some matter of fact in any deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading introductory to some positive allegation.
Extensive Definition
A recital is a musical (vocal or instrumental)
performance. It can
highlight a single performer, sometimes accompanied by piano, or a performance of the
works of a single composer.
The invention of the solo piano recital has been
attributed to Franz
Liszt.
Also, a recital may have many participants, as
for a dance
recital.
recital in Esperanto: Recitalo
recital in Hebrew: רסיטל
recital in Dutch: Recital
recital in Polish: Recital
recital in Finnish: Resitaali
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Philharmonic concert, account, address, after-dinner speech,
allocution, assignment, band concert,
chalk talk, chamber concert, concert, copy, critique, debate, declamation, description, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, dwelling
upon, elaboration,
entertainment,
enumeration,
eulogy, exercise, exhortation, exposition, filibuster, forensic, forensic address,
formal speech, funeral oration, going over, harangue, homework, homily, hortatory address,
inaugural, inaugural
address, instruction, interpretation, invective, iteration, jeremiad, lecture, lecture-demonstration,
lesson, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, musical
performance, musical program, musicale, narration, narrative, object lesson,
oration, pep talk,
performance,
peroration, philharmonic, philippic, pitch, pop concert, pops, popular concert, practicing, preachment, prepared speech,
prepared text, presentation, program, program of music,
prom, promenade concert,
public speech, reading,
reaffirmation,
recap, recapitulation, recitation, recountal, recounting, rehash, rehearsal, reissue, reiteration, relation, rendition, repetition, report, reprint, restatement, resume, retelling, review, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory
address, say, screed, sermon, service of music, set
speech, set task, show,
skull session, speech,
speechification,
speeching, story, summary, summing up, symphony
concert, tale-telling, talk, talkathon, task, teaching, telling, tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory
address, version, yarn
spinning