(1) It may seem odd, then, that almost nothing is known about himu2026 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 .(2) Van Gogh also wrote movingly of the music he heard at the pastorale , and that when he went home after the play, u2018it was the first time I slept without a bad nightmareu2019.(3) 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.(4) It actually contains a prelude and three dances a well as the pastorale movement - a popular idiom of the period.(5) It's an oxymoron but u2018Unconditionalu2019 is an urban pastorale .(6) The Concertante pastorale from 1951 sounds moonlit.(7) He strongly felt the consoling power of the music in the pastorale , and Silverman recognizes the ambiguity in the title, which means both u2018woman rocking a cradle u2018and u2018lullaby.u2019(8) The Fall of Berlin has battle scenes galore modelled on the Leningrad Symphony, though there is also a cringe-making pastorale .(9) 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).(10) 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.(11) 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.(12) Silverman confirms that during this time of year, Arles was awash in santons, cru00e8ches, and performances of pastorales , Nativity plays.(13) Traditional Basque plays known as pastorales , which possibly related to medieval mystery plays, are still performed at festivals.
