单词 | pastorale |
释义 | pastoralen. 1. Music. a. An instrumental or vocal composition in compound time, intending to evoke a rustic scene, usually by means of droning bass notes suggestive of a shepherd's bagpipes. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > pastoral piece pastorella1699 pastorale1724 musette1726 pastourelle1735 1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. Pastorale, is an Air composed after a very sweet, easy, gentle Manner, in Imitation of those Airs which Shepherds are supposed to play. 1784 Ann. Reg. 1782 Characters 11/1 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 bag-pipes. 1866 C. Engel Introd. Study National Music i. 9 The theme of the Pastorale in Handel's ‘Messiah’ has been derived from the Pifferari, Italian peasants. 1901 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. I. 192/1 Another of Best's editions was ‘Cecilia’ (1883)..; it included his own sonata in D minor, a ‘Christmas Pastorale’, [etc.]. 1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 692/2 The name Pastorale is often applied to an instrumental composition, generally in a six-in-a-measure or twelve-in-a-measure time. 2003 Times (Nexis) 24 Jan. (Features section) 23 The vision of the beloved haunted the slow movement's pastorale. b. An opera, cantata, or other vocal work with a pastoral subject. Cf. pastoral n. 3b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > opera > [noun] > pastoral pastoral1614 pastorale1876 1876 Catholic World Feb. 652/1 Among their other amusements is the pastorale, acted in the open air. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 670 Pastorales had their origin in Italy, where..the study of the Eclogues of Theocritus and Virgil led to the stage representation of pastoral dramas. 1959 D. Woodward tr. A. Schönberger & H. Soehner Rococo Age (1963) 368 This opera is a heroic pastorale in which Apollo as a shepherd makes advances to the nymph Issa. 1994 Trav. & Leisure Dec. 109/2 We wander into the community hall in time to catch a traveling troupe's performance of a pastorale, a 19th-century Christmas play. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > movements or steps > [noun] > figure > figures in quadrilles and country-dances allemande?1770 reel1804 pastourelle?1814 poussette1814 pastorale1822 ladies' chain1825 poussetting1836 tour1841 grand chain1864 first set1894 1822 Manch. Iris 8 June 152/1 We would hint that Dancing now-a-days is of great importance. A good pastorale has often procured an acred wife. 1845 Littell's Living Age 22 Feb. 479/1 The next set, or whatever they called it, had the equally unmeaning title of the ‘Pastorale’. 1864 G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah vii. 231 When one couple is dancing ‘Trélise’, and another ‘Pastorale’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1724 |
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