0 expressing something with strong feeling, especially in a loud voice or with forceful language:
a declamatory style
The opening handmaids' chorus is deceptively lyrical: most of the time, the vocal lines are declamatory, as if the entire work were some huge ritual.
One factor here was the move towards a quieter, less declamatory mode of address, with a reduced commitment to affective impact.
In broad terms, aria style is associated with song, non-aria or declamatory style with speech.
Specialised varieties of declamatory speech used in the broadcast media and film (gameshow host, reporter, newscaster, documentary presenter, and so on).
Then, in another about-face, she repents and resolves to bury her feelings: her music sinks back once more to the declamatory style of the opening.
All three are basses or baritones, and sing music that is somewhat stentorian or declamatory.
Where the vocal writing in the first duet section was lyrical, here it is entirely declamatory.
Arioso here refers to lyrical oases within declamatory passages; these oases were shorter and less formal than arias.
