Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pastorale"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pastorale \Pas`to*ra"le\, n. [It.]
1. (Mus.) A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in
6-8 or 12-8 time.
2. A kind of dance; a kind of figure used in a dance.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pastorale
n : a musical composition that evokes rural life [syn: {pastoral},
{idyll}]
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