| Although also without recitative, there were arioso pieces and instrumental symphonies, with choruses which included chorales. |
| The oboe has a kind of arioso phrase with trilling of flutes and clarinets, answered in trumpets and harp. |
| In Act 3 when Guido and Emilia meet, he urges her to kill him in a remarkable sequence of secco recitative, accompanied recitative and arioso. |
| We aren't surprised that Handel employs, for this grand theme, all the resources of classical Heroic Opera, involving recitative, arioso, aria, chorus, and ceremonial dance. |
| The highlight of this final section, however, had to be the tenor arioso. |
| In early 17th-century opera, recitative was the principal mode of expression and was often freely mixed with short passages of arioso. |
