pastorale

An instrumental or vocal composition with a tender melody in a moderately slow rhythm, suggestive of traditional shepherds’ music and idyllic rural life.

A dramatic performance or opera, popular in the 1500s and 1600s, that was based on a rural theme or subject.

In music: A variety of opera or cantata in which idyllic or rustic scenes predominate, the dramatic interest usually being slight. The name is sometimes extended to an instrumental work of similar character.

A vocal or instrumental piece in triple rhythm, often with a drone-bass, in which a studied simplicity or an actual imitation of rustic sounds suggests pastoral life and its emotions.

Same as pastourelle.

A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time.

A kind of dance; a kind of figure used in a dance.

a play or a musical product which has a pastoral subject

art that is suggestive of pastoral themes

a musical composition that evokes rural life