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Pastorale   Listen
noun
Pastorale  n.  
1.
(Mus.) A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time.
2.
A kind of dance; a kind of figure used in a dance.





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"Pastorale" Quotes from Famous Books



... ad reliqua Communionis solemnia permit Cicestren. nullu. Archie'po tradens Pastorale baculum."—Bramhall, vol. iii. p. 205., Part i. Disc. 5. ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 50. Saturday, October 12, 1850 • Various
... fear the public judgment upon his work, and had given orders to admit without distinction all who should present themselves. He began to repent of this, but too late. The impartial assembly was as cold at the tragedie-pastorale itself. In vain did the theatrical bergeres, covered with jewels, raised upon red heels, with crooks ornamented with ribbons and garlands of flowers upon their robes, which were stuck out with farthingale's, die of love in tirades of two hundred verses; in vain did ...
— Cinq Mars, Complete • Alfred de Vigny


Words linked to "Pastorale" :   musical composition, opus, pastoral, piece, idyll, piece of music


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