Recital

Noun

 * 1) The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.
 * 2) A telling in detail and due order of the particulars of anything, as of a law, an adventure, or a series of events; narration.
 * 3) That which is recited; a story; a narration.
 * 4) A vocal or instrumental performance by one person; -- distinguished from concert; as, a song recital; an organ, piano, or violin recital.
 * 5) The formal statement, or setting forth, of some matter of fact in any deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading introductory to some positive allegation.

Adjectives for Recital
bolting; warm; light; summary; amusing; quaint; dejected; tedious; dispassionate; instructive.

Verbs for Recital
narrate—; rehearse—; render—; sum up—; unfold—; —edifies; —enchants; —enlightens; —enthralls; —entrances; —inspires; — pictures; —portrays; —recounts; —relates; —unravels.

Thesaurus
Philharmonic concert, account, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, assignment, band concert, chalk talk, chamber concert, concert, copy, critique, debate, declamation, description, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, dwelling upon, elaboration, entertainment, enumeration, eulogy, exercise, exhortation, exposition, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, going over, harangue, homework, homily, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, instruction, interpretation, invective, iteration, jeremiad, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, musical performance, musical program, musicale, narration, narrative, object lesson, oration, pep talk, performance, peroration, philharmonic, philippic, pitch, pop concert, pops, popular concert, practicing, preachment, prepared speech, prepared text, presentation, program, program of music, prom, promenade concert, public speech, reading, reaffirmation, recap, recapitulation, recitation, recountal, recounting, rehash, rehearsal, reissue, reiteration, relation, rendition, repetition, report, reprint, restatement, resume, retelling, review, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, sermon, service of music, set speech, set task, show, skull session, speech, speechification, speeching, story, summary, summing up, symphony concert, tale-telling, talk, talkathon, task, teaching, telling, tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, version, yarn spinning