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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recital
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
give
▪ Ben and I had just given a recital in Vienna.
▪ I've enough material to give a full recital.
▪ He used his star players to give chamber recitals, and others to play in the foyers before performances.
▪ They gave a magnificent recital, which got a rapturous reception.
▪ He has also been active in jazz education, taking workshops and giving lectures and recitals in schools and colleges.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A musical prodigy, he played solo recitals by age 12.
▪ He dates this earlier layer to 1735-6, perhaps put together for Bach's recital at the Dresden Frauenkirche in December 1736.
▪ He used his star players to give chamber recitals, and others to play in the foyers before performances.
▪ Not only that, but Alan and his friends have also managed to get him a recital in the Barbican in London.
▪ The recital was in the grounds of an historic castle, in keeping with the growing fashion for outdoor opera.
▪ They fight, and fall, in strophes appropriate for recital in a warriors' banquet hall.
▪ This was his recital of flattering greetings.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recital

Recital \Re*cit"al\ (r[-e]*s[imac]t"al), n. [From Recite.]

  1. The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.

  2. A telling in detail and due order of the particulars of anything, as of a law, an adventure, or a series of events; narration.
    --Addison.

  3. That which is recited; a story; a narration.

  4. (Mus.) A vocal or instrumental performance by one person; -- distinguished from concert; as, a song recital; an organ, piano, or violin recital.

  5. (Law) 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.
    --Burn.

    Syn: Account; rehearsal; recitation; narration; description; explanation; enumeration; detail; narrative. See Account.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recital

1510s, a legal term, "rehearsal or statement of relevant facts," from recite + -al. Meaning "act of reciting" is from 1610s; musical performance sense is from 1811.

Wiktionary
recital

n. 1 The act of reciting (gloss: the repetition of something that has been memorized); rehearsal 2 The act of telling the order of events of something in detail the order of events; narration. 3 That which is recited; a story, narration, account. 4 A vocal, instrumental or visual performance by a soloist. 5 (context legal English) A formal, preliminary statement in a deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded, prior to a positive allegation.

WordNet
recital
  1. n. 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"

Wikipedia
Recital (disambiguation)

A recital can be:

  • Concert, an instrumental or vocal music performance
    • Organ recital
  • Dance recital
  • Recital (law), an account of the details of an act
  • the Israeli brand-name of the antidepressant Citalopram
  • Recital (database), xBase programming language and integrated development environment
Recital (law)

In Law, a recital (from the Latin word recitare, meaning: to read out) consists of an account or repetition of the details of some act, proceeding or fact. Particularly, in law, that part of a legal document—such as a lease, which contains a statement of certain facts—which contains the purport for which the deed is made.

In EU law, a recital is a text that sets out reasons for the provisions of an act, while avoiding normative language and political argumentation.

By convention, recitals start with the word Whereas.

Recital (album)

Recital is a studio album released by jazz pianist Dave Burrell. It was recorded on August 8, 2000, and released in 2001 by the label CIMP. The album is a duet with bassist Tyrone Brown. The album is considered as "simple, yet stately".

Usage examples of "recital".

She said yes, and instead of repulsing my caresses she proceeded to accompany my actions with the recital of erotic verses.

The Sun is neither born, dies, nor is raised to life: and the recital of these events was but an allegory, veiling a higher truth.

Arlbery laughed heartily at the recital, assuring her she doubted not but she had made acquaintance with some dangerous fair one, who was playing upon her inexperience, and utterly unfit to be known to her.

We uncertain spellers, five or six ballet fans, sat in the gallery of the Stadttheater and looked on critically at the recital that the ballet master had ventured to stage with the help of Madame Lara.

Berry, as her recital declared, was no other than that identical woman who once in old days had dared to behold the baronet behind his mask, and had ever since lived in exile from the Raynham world on a little pension regularly paid to her as an indemnity.

During the recital, which was interrupted a number of times while she tried to regain her breath, Metis omitted all reference to their brother Proteus, whose presence on Olympos was still unknown to Philyra.

After the recital, instead of going home, Miss Southard surprised her guests by taking them over to the theatre where her brother was playing.

Madame Norma Bellini, whom you will of course remember from her superb solo recital last month in Stratford, is our contralto, and the great Carlos Pitney is our bass.

The brakie heard this recital with the keenest interest, nodding from time to time.

Those indications have been gathered from the verbal recitals of some trading seamen of the Indian Ocean, and especially from the charts of those seamen, found in Moorish vessels seized by the Portuguese, who were masters of these seas as soon as they appeared upon them.

Anna went past her into James Recital Hall that Eck seemed to notice Maggie.

That evening a famous Hungarian Fiddler, accompanied by a warbling Guinea Hen and backed up by sixty Symphonic Heineys wearing Spectacles, was giving a Recital for the True Lovers in a Mammoth Cave devoted to Art.

Between the lines of these mutual recitals sweet, fresh echoes of the old, old story went from heart to heart, an amoebaean love-bout like that of spring birds calling tenderly back and forth in the blooming Maytime woods.

He was leaving one pleasurable venue, a box at the Royal Festival Hall where he had been attending a charity recital of Offenbach arias, and was heading for another, the Palm Court at the Waldorf Hotel.

During this recital, Carrie Planish, returning from some unexplained engagement, looked into the kitchen and sniffily withdrew.