siciliano
Americannoun
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a graceful folk dance of Sicily.
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the music for this dance.
noun
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an old dance in six-beat or twelve-beat time
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music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of siciliano
1715–25; < Italian: literally, Sicilian
Example Sentences
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A quiet siciliano in the organ becomes an orchestral climax of exceptional strength.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2023
It gets to a middle section which is a sort of slow siciliano, which has a feeling of prayer, or a really beautiful love song, the most tender one can imagine.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023
The concerto seems to take a sudden turn into the tragic with this Adagio, written in a halting siciliano dance rhythm.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2014
Meyerbeer tried the expedient in "Le Pardon de Ploermel," and the siciliano in Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" and the prologue in Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" are other cases in point.
From A Second Book of Operas by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
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