Volume 9 (2003) No. 1
Louise K. Stein
The Origins and Character of recitado
example 1
“Estilo recitatibo” opening of dialogue for Palas and Mercurio, Act
I of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Fortunas de Andrómeda y Perseo
(1653), anonymous music, most likely composed by Juan Hidalgo (US-CAh
MS Typ 258H, fol. 114v), ed. Louise K. Stein, Songs of Mortals, Dialogues
of the Gods (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), 448–9. Reproduced by permission
of Oxford University Press.
Return to: Paragraph 1.4.