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Piece of music that evokes the countryside
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pastorale
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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.
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Pastorale is a song without words written by Igor Stravinsky in 1907. Stravinsky composed the piece at his family's estate in Ustilug , Ukraine, while under the supervision of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov , and dedicated it to Rimsky-Korsakov's daughter Nadia. ...
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 .