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Examples
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"The Pastorale is a gamble to play; most of the world's biggest orchestras don't play it well."
JSOnline.com 2010
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I'm not sure which group has the recording for the Flute Sonata "Pastorale," which I heard on the radio.
Archive 2008-04-27 papabear 2008
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Since I mentioned it, just to clarify: I adore most of Fantasia, despite the effects the film usually has on the people or person around me, especially during the "Rite of Spring" sequence, or occasionally during the "Pastorale" sequence, which probably not incidentally are my least favorite parts of the film.
Help me, Internets! mariness 2007
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And while I'm aware that the various cupids and centaurs and so on in the "Pastorale" sequence are supposed to be cute, only a very fine line separates "cute" from "faintly nauseating," and much of that sequence crosses the line.
Help me, Internets! mariness 2007
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The latest restoration of Fantasia, for example, cropped the "Pastorale" sequence to eliminate a female black centaur.
Scrivener's Error 2003
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"Pastorale" (opus 20), and almost as much so as the "Eclogue," delicious with the organ's possibilities for reed and pipe effects.
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The "Pastorale" is rather Smithian than olden, with its mellow harmony, but the "Minuetto" is the perfection of chivalric foppery and pompous gaiety.
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"Pastorale" had come floating down to him over the olive-trees almost like a melody that stole from paradise.
The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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Tell Sebastiano he must play the 'Pastorale' to welcome me.
The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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Sebastiano was playing the tune she loved, the "Pastorale," but to-day she did not heed it.
The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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