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
Also (archaic): pastourelle
Word origin
C18: Italian, from Latin: pastoral
Examples of 'pastourelle' in a sentence
pastourelle
There was also what was called the pastourelle, a make-believe shepherd's song.
W. S. B. Mathews A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present (1891). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)