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pastorale Music 1. a composition evocative of rural life, characterized by moderate compound duple or quadruple time and sometimes a droning accompaniment 2. a musical play based on a rustic story, popular during the 16th century How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In 1524 the Tuscan explorer Giovanni da Verrazano, sailing for the French crown, was so impressed by the beauty of the North American coast that he christened it 'Arcadia,' after a prose pastorale of the same name published in 1502, a work that popularized the notion of a rural 'golden age' among the ancients," observes Yale University history professor John Mack Faragher in his book A Great And Noble Scheme. Rodriguez, La Iglesia, signo y primicia del reino: Reflexiones pastorales desde el Caribe y America Latina (Chicago: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Hispanic/Latino Ministry Program, 2003). In order to give conceptual shape to this essential structure ruling over Heidegger's works, Bambach appropriates the paradoxical trope of pastorale militans from Ernst Bloch's essay "Heritage of Our Times" (1935). |
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