Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrumental or vocal composition with a tender melody in a moderately slow rhythm, suggestive of traditional shepherds' music and idyllic rural life.
- noun A dramatic performance or opera, popular in the 1500s and 1600s, that was based on a rural theme or subject.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music: A variety of opera or cantata in which idyllic or rustic scenes predominate, the dramatic interest usually being slight. The name is sometimes extended to an instrumental work of similar character.
- noun A vocal or instrumental piece in triple rhythm, often with a drone-bass, in which a studied simplicity or an actual imitation of rustic sounds suggests pastoral life and its emotions.
- noun Same as
pastourelle .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time.
- noun A kind of dance; a kind of figure used in a dance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a play or a
musical product which has apastoral subject - noun art that is suggestive of
pastoral themes
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a musical composition that evokes rural life
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The pastorale was another form which flourished from the twelfth to the sixteenth century, sometimes having religious texts and then again voicing secular sentiments.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Roger Viollet/Getty Images The composer Gioacchino Rossini Now the flute raindrops turn into a birdlike motif for solo flute leading into a beautiful pastorale section in the brighter key of G-major.
The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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Cf., for example, Bishop Manuel Larrain Errazuriz of Talca, Chile, President of CELAM, Lettre pastorale sur le developpement et la paix .
Populorum Progressio 2008
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«Il neige sur le cinéma», in which he discusses snow in the films of Georges Méliès, Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Leopold Lindtberg, René Clair, Robert Flaherty, and especially La Symphonie pastorale, Jean Delannoy's film based on Gide's novella?
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In brani come Gut Of The Quantifier si evidenzia la parentela del loro sound con gli esperimenti della scuola minimalista, in particolare quelli dei Sonic Youth; mentre in altri un tribalismo surreale (What You Need) o una ballata pastorale
FallNews - they grease the roads! *truckers' pin-up edition* 1999
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In 1954, Martin Luther King accepted the pastorale of the Dexter
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LA PASTORALE seems to be an inversion of _la Trenise_, except that in nineteen cases out of twenty, the waistcoat, tip, camellia and wristbands, seem to undergo intense mental torture; for if there be such a thing as "poetry of motion," _pastorale_ must be the "Inferno of Dancing."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 Various
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The impartial assembly was as cold at the tragedie-pastorale itself.
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Russian composer, has given us in his symphony "Antar" a tone picture of this Arabian Negro's life that opens and closes with an atmospheric eastern pastorale of great beauty.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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Reymundi; Liber de vitiis et virtutibus et pastorale.
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