What musical style does the following passage best describe: a style in which a singer declaims a text in a manner once measured and free, lyrical yet rhythmically fluid, monody lies partway between song and speech?

a) recitative
b) monody
c) opera
d) basso continuo


b

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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