nounsicilianos

• A dance, song, or instrumental piece in 6/8 or 12/8 time, typically in a minor key, and evoking a pastoral mood.

  ‘It was a type of instrumental or vocal work resembling the siciliano, generally in 6/8 or 12/8 time and often suggesting a rustic or bucolic subject by the imitation of the drone of a shepherd's bagpipe or musette.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The siciliana or siciliano is a musical form often included as a movement within larger pieces of music starting in the Baroque period.’