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pastorale
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Pastorale is an album by Italian pianist Stefano Battaglia with Michele Rabbia on electronics and percussion recorded in 20009 and released on the ECM label.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pastorale \Pas`to*ra"le\, n. [It.] (Mus.) A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time. A kind of dance; a kind of figure used in a dance.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
musical composition from rustic tunes or representing pastoral scenes," 1724, from Italian pastorale , noun use of adjective, from Latin pastoralis (see pastoral ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a musical composition that evokes rural life [syn: pastoral , idyll ] [also: pastorali (pl)]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a play or a musical product which has a pastoral subject 2 art that is suggestive of pastoral themes
Usage examples of pastorale.
She pitched on a little Sicilian pastorale that the herdsmen play on their pipes coming down from the hills, softly, from very far, rising, rising, swelling to full cadence, and failing, failing away again to nothing.
Soon, however, the mood endemic to Pastorale, the country they had now entered, laid itself on him.
As to this little pastorale which it seems is being enacted as a sort of interlude to the more serious business of the stage, it is what I imagine invariably takes place.
Westward room-clerk any more, but manager of the lordly Hotel Pastorale in Naples, and probably he was nibbled to death by guests whom he had known in New York, just as Myron had been pestered by clients who, because they had once seen him at Connecticut Inn or Tippecanoe Lodge, expected to get a couple of floors free.
And the delicate Pastorale is redolent of the gentle fields of Europe, smells of the hay, gives again the nun-like close of day in temperate skies.
Writing to Januarius, Biship of Cagliari, the Pope says: “Contra idolorum cultores, uel aruspices atque sortilegos, fraternitatem uestram uehementius pastorali hortamur inuigilare custodia .