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How to pronounce pastorale in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms idyl, idyll, pastoral
Type of composition, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music

Examples of pastorale

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This pastorale opens with a siciliana, then the three-note call of a hunter.
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The Serenade is a Mozartean pastorale filtered through a budding Romantic sensibility.
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The Sportsman's Sketches provides a landscape with figures-peasants and hunters who wander in a remote and somehow doomed pastorale.
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Pastorale, from 1975, is a Chekhovian comedy-drama about a string quartet spending a less-than-idyllic summer in the Georgian countryside.
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For the third movement pastorale, Balakirev had hoped for a Russian version of the corresponding movement from the Symphonie fantastique.
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The contrast between Gerrard's film event and Tippett's gentle pastorale is brutal in its irony, but McGregor's neo-balletic vocabulary, with its anguished grapplings and cradlings, unites the two.
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  • A musical composition that evokes rural life
  • For Beethoven's Pastoral symphony, see Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven)
  • A play or a musical product which has a pastoral subject; art that is suggestive of pastoral themes
  • In a pastoral style, peaceful and simple
  • Metal plate which cane is layed upon. The plate is heated in the glory hole until the cane are fused together or close to being fused. The glassblower then picks up the cane on either the pipe, solid glass, or a bubble by rolling it over the hot cane, right to left. ...
  • (French) pastoral; an instrumental piece, often written over long drone-like bass notes, with rustic overtones
  • (It.) 1. An instrumental movement with long bass notes giving a drone-like effect in 6/8 or 12/8 time; 2. Obsolete term for a stage entertainment based on a legendary or rustic subject.
  • Beverage to drink in the country when listening to Beethoven with a member of the clergy.
  • Pastoral, country-like.