 It begins with Aricie's aria "Temple sacré, séjour tranquille", with its solemn and "religious cast".There follows an extensive dialogue in recitative between Aricie and Hippolyte.Rameau's recitative is like Lully's in that it respects the prosody of the words but is more "cantabile" (song-like) and has more ornamentation, with wider intervals to increase expressivity.