She nudged him, while he, looking through her as through a windowpane, went on with his recitative.

她用胳膊肘推推她丈夫，她丈夫仿佛隔着窗玻璃看着她，嘴里继续哼着歌儿。

Jingdong da gu is an art form of drum music and recitative, performed in the East Beijing dialect.

京东大鼓是一种采用京东方音说唱表演的曲艺鼓书暨鼓曲形式。

Why should it not do, I thought to myself, to act a drama in a kind of recitative based on this idea.

我心想，为什么不以这种观点为基础，去写一个朗诵形式的剧本呢？

Of or being a kind of recitative in which the words are sung rapidly to minimal melody, usually with continuo.

属于吟诵的一段音乐，其中的歌词要迅速唱到最小的旋律，通常伴有数字低音。

The recitative is the reenactment of Matthew's Gospel 26-27, played by the main characters in the Bible and narrated by the evangelist Matthew.

朗诵部分取材于马太福音26和27章，由传道人马太叙述，经文中的主要人物分角色朗诵。