Definitions

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  • noun A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure.
  • noun The music to this dance.

Etymologies

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Italian

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Examples

  • Coria, Profumi di Sicilia: Il libro della cucina siciliana, Palermo, 1981.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • Sapio Bartelletti, La cucina siciliana nobile e popolare, Milan, 1980.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • Novella popolare siciliana pubblicata ed illustrata a cura di Francesco Sabatini.

    Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane

  • I recollect only the sword-fish, a local speciality, and (as crowning glory) the _cassata alla siciliana, _ a glacial symphony, a multicoloured ice of commingling flavours, which requires far more time to describe than to devour.

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

  • After the almost funereal beginning of the first movement, the clarinets introduce a lyric second theme, which is treated in the graceful manner of a siciliana.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • C Major Variation V and the concluding siciliana will not assuage the mortal coil that surrounds this fateful work which Beethoven, too, found powerfully compelling.

    Audiophile Audition Headlines 2010

  • After the almost funereal beginning of the first movement, the clarinets introduce a lyric second theme, which is treated in the graceful manner of a siciliana.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • After the almost funereal beginning of the first movement, the clarinets introduce a lyric second theme, which is treated in the graceful manner of a siciliana.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • You know Perahia will leap lightly over Brahms's formidable technical hurdles, and it was good to have each variation so strongly characterised, whether poetic reverie, dancing siciliana or brilliant virtuoso display.

    Evening Standard - Home 2009

  • The concerti themselves have such delicacy in the dance movements, and a wide variety of moods elsewhere, from the sad siciliana to the most effervescent of optimism in some of the allegros.

    Audiophile Audition Headlines 2009

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