lecture vs recitation

lecture

noun
  • a class that primarily consists of a (weekly or other regularly held) lecture (as in sense 1) 

  • A berating or scolding. 

  • A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group. 

verb
  • To preach, to berate, to scold. 

  • To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic. 

recitation

noun
  • A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture. 

  • The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized. 

  • A part of a song's lyrics that is spoken rather than sung. 

  • The material recited. 

How often have the words lecture and recitation occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )