The word "recitation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an act of repeating something aloud, usually from memory. Example sentence: The student struggled to get through the recitation of the speech without making a mistake.
The summer of acid rain Reprints Related items American spirituality: Where &ldquo California” bubbled up Dec 19th 2007The Koran is not only the most widely read book in the Islamic world but also the most widely recited ("Koran" means "recitation").
In Buddhist ceremonies, prayers were recited in three ways: as recitation in a low voice, as a cantillation (sung, inflected recitation) following the six tones of the Vietnamese language, and as chant accompanied by an orchestra of two drums, bell, gong, cymbals, and fiddles.
Produced and directed by her for the BBC, it followed primary schoolchildren from across Britain in a poetry recitation competition, and brought her another Bafta award.
Nahla Mattar, the director of Cairo's Umm Kulthum museum, said she was impressed by Grout's dedication, but argued the singer still needed "a lot of deep training in Quranic recitation.
In his dense recitation of data, there is hardly a mention of the demographic crisis facing China, which means that the country could well become old before it becomes rich.
Mr Grant tells the story well, though he mars it with a chronology that is confusing at times and the frequent, excruciating recitation of statistics on everything from Americans' annual coal consumption to US Steel's assets.The government confronted many of the questions that have since dominated economic policymaking.
Linked to them are three listening posts: the first, a recitation of an 8th-century Arabic poem written in Spain; the second, a Persian recitation of part of Ferdowsi's acclaimed Shahnameh; and third, a Turkish reading of the Eulogy to Suleiman the Magnificent.
Thus, her opening chapter is no genealogical recitation, but an evocation of the Melville of "Moby Dick": "sound the name and it's to be the romance of the sea, the vast mysterious waters for which a thousand adjectives cannot suffice".
And that was preceded by the "hubris of reason": Woodrow Wilson's delusion that victory in the first world war would enable America to create a global system of rule-bound peace and reason.Nor is "The Icarus Syndrome" merely a recitation of misbegotten interventions.
Last year the UN's summer beach-camps tempted 200,000 children away from the mosques where Islamists run rival summer camps that offer recitation of the Koran and guerrilla training.
These are traditional strongmen's clubs, where muscle-bound devotees whirl Indian clubs and perform feats of endurance to the beat of a drum and the recitation of spiritual poetry.
