recitation vs rehearsal

recitation

noun
  • The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized. 

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

  • The material recited. 

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

rehearsal

noun
  • The act of rehearsing or contriving something; the fact of something's being rehearsed. 

  • A preparatory activity analogous to the rehearsal of a show. 

  • The practicing of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done. 

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