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‖ Siciliˈana
Also pl. -ane. Also Siciliano, siciliano; pl. sicilianos, siciliani.
[It., fem. of Siciliano Sicilian.]
A dance of the Sicilian peasantry, resembling a jig; the music for this. Also, a piece in 6/8 or 12/8 time resembling this music. Also attrib.
1724Short Explic. For. Wds. in Mus. Bks., Siciliane, a Kind of Jig. 1782Ann. Reg. ii. 11 In Christmas time all quarters of Naples resound with pastorali or Siciliane, a kind of simple rural music, executed by..shepherds, upon a species of bagpipes. 1866Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 704/1 Siciliana, in Music, a name given to a slow, soothing, pastoral description of air, in {sixon8} time. 1873H. C. Banister Music 250 Siciliana, an old Sicilian dance in {sixon8} time, with a Satarello movement. 1883Grove Dict. Mus. III. 491/2 Siciliana, Siciliano, Sicilienne, a dance rhythm closely allied to the Pastorale. 1947C. Gray Contingencies & Other Essays v. 118 The frequent recurrence in Bellini's music of 12–8 rhythms, called in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music Siciliani, seems always to have been a feature of the popular music of his countrymen. 1959D. Cooke Lang. of Music ii. 100 The siciliano movement in Brahms's St. Anthony Variations. 1968Listener 20 June 814/1 Their variety was astonishing, from the lyrical sicilianos which the history books praise, to vigorous virtuoso pieces. 1970W. Apel Harvard Dict. Music (ed. 2) 774/2 The siciliana occurs as a slow movement in early sonatas..as well as in vocal music..whenever gentle pastoral scenes are to be represented musically. 1974Early Music July 197/1 A delightful siciliano aria for alto to the words ‘Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris’. 1979Ibid. Oct. 545/2 A profusion of characteristic ideas, charming Sicilianos, bubbling Allegros, idiomatic and elegant writing for the instrument. |