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词汇 pastorale
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Definition of pastorale in English:

pastorale

nounPlural pastorales, Plural pastorali ˌpastəˈrɑːl
  • 1Music
    A slow instrumental composition in compound time, usually with drone notes in the bass.

    田园曲

    the pastorales in Handel's Messiah and Corelli's Christmas Concerto
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Movement III unfolds as a graceful pastorale in 6/8 time, presenting the melody twice in its entirety, adding gravity through use of an ostinato-like pedal line.
    • It may seem odd, then, that almost nothing is known about him… The Cloud Messenger is a poetic monologue in 210 stanzas; if one were to place it approximately in a genre of European verse, one could call it a pastorale.
    • The Fall of Berlin has battle scenes galore modelled on the Leningrad Symphony, though there is also a cringe-making pastorale.
    • It actually contains a prelude and three dances a well as the pastorale movement - a popular idiom of the period.
    • He strongly felt the consoling power of the music in the pastorale, and Silverman recognizes the ambiguity in the title, which means both ‘woman rocking a cradle ‘and ‘lullaby.’
    • The Concertante pastorale from 1951 sounds moonlit.
    • Van Gogh also wrote movingly of the music he heard at the pastorale, and that when he went home after the play, ‘it was the first time I slept without a bad nightmare’.
  • 2A simple musical play with a rural subject.

    田园音乐剧

    these two short pastorales are considered the earliest true operas in French
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Silverman confirms that during this time of year, Arles was awash in santons, crèches, and performances of pastorales, Nativity plays.
    • Now in Blackburn you will find a naturalist for whom fall arrives when a leaf is floating on the dirty water of a city fountain - and the poem IS a pastorale, is a source of value.
    • Catherine Stine's still-life oil pastorales are vignettes of a time when pre-Disney Pooh and The Wind in the Willows demarcated a child's world.
    • It's an oxymoron but ‘Unconditional’ is an urban pastorale.
    • Traditional Basque plays known as pastorales, which possibly related to medieval mystery plays, are still performed at festivals.
    • Silverman and her research assistants even located the text of the actual pastorale that was performed that day in Arles (researchers take note: the text was found not in the Arles municipal archives but in the New York Public Library).

Origin

Early 18th century: from Italian, literally 'pastoral' (adjective used as a noun).

Rhymes

Amal, Arles, banal, Barisal, Basle, Bhopal, Carl, chorale, corral, dhal, entente cordiale, Escorial, farl, femme fatale, Funchal, gayal, gnarl, halal, Karl, kraal, locale, marl, morale, musicale, Pascal, procès-verbal, Provençal, rationale, real, rial, riyal, snarl, Taal, Taj Mahal, timbale, toile, Vaal, Vidal, Waal

Definition of pastorale in US English:

pastorale

noun
  • 1Music
    A slow instrumental composition in compound time, usually with drone notes in the bass.

    田园曲

    the pastorales in Handel's Messiah and Corelli's Christmas Concerto
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Fall of Berlin has battle scenes galore modelled on the Leningrad Symphony, though there is also a cringe-making pastorale.
    • The Concertante pastorale from 1951 sounds moonlit.
    • He strongly felt the consoling power of the music in the pastorale, and Silverman recognizes the ambiguity in the title, which means both ‘woman rocking a cradle ‘and ‘lullaby.’
    • It may seem odd, then, that almost nothing is known about him… The Cloud Messenger is a poetic monologue in 210 stanzas; if one were to place it approximately in a genre of European verse, one could call it a pastorale.
    • Van Gogh also wrote movingly of the music he heard at the pastorale, and that when he went home after the play, ‘it was the first time I slept without a bad nightmare’.
    • Movement III unfolds as a graceful pastorale in 6/8 time, presenting the melody twice in its entirety, adding gravity through use of an ostinato-like pedal line.
    • It actually contains a prelude and three dances a well as the pastorale movement - a popular idiom of the period.
  • 2A simple musical play with a rural subject.

    田园音乐剧

    these two short pastorales are considered the earliest true operas in French
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Silverman and her research assistants even located the text of the actual pastorale that was performed that day in Arles (researchers take note: the text was found not in the Arles municipal archives but in the New York Public Library).
    • Silverman confirms that during this time of year, Arles was awash in santons, crèches, and performances of pastorales, Nativity plays.
    • Now in Blackburn you will find a naturalist for whom fall arrives when a leaf is floating on the dirty water of a city fountain - and the poem IS a pastorale, is a source of value.
    • Traditional Basque plays known as pastorales, which possibly related to medieval mystery plays, are still performed at festivals.
    • It's an oxymoron but ‘Unconditional’ is an urban pastorale.
    • Catherine Stine's still-life oil pastorales are vignettes of a time when pre-Disney Pooh and The Wind in the Willows demarcated a child's world.

Origin

Early 18th century: from Italian, literally ‘pastoral’ (adjective used as a noun).

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