Sicilianan.

1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. Siciliane, a Kind of Jig.

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 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 704/1 Siciliana, in Music, a name given to a slow, soothing, pastoral description of air, in 6/8 time.

1873 H. C. Banister Music 250 Siciliana, an old Sicilian dance in 6/8 time, with a Satarello movement.

1883 G. Grove Dict. Music III. 491/2 Siciliana, Siciliano, Sicilienne, a dance rhythm closely allied to the Pastorale.

1947 C. Gray Contingencies 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.

1959 D. Cooke Lang. Music ii. 100 The siciliano movement in Brahms's St. Anthony Variations.

1968 Listener 20 June 814/1 Their variety was astonishing, from the lyrical sicilianos which the history books praise, to vigorous virtuoso pieces.

1970 W. Apel Harvard Dict. Music (rev. ed.) 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.

1974 Early Music 2 197/1 A delightful siciliano aria for alto to the words ‘Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris’.

1979 Early Music 7 545/2 A profusion of characteristic ideas, charming Sicilianos, bubbling Allegros, idiomatic and elegant writing for the instrument.