rusticana

British  

/ ˌrʌstɪˈkaːnə /

plural noun

1. objects, such as agricultural implements, garden furniture, etc, relating to the countryside or made in imitation of rustic styles

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Example Sentences

The season had opened the previous week with Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci – Cav and Pag – that double dollop of bleak but tuneful Italian verismo which helped pave the way to Butterfly.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2013

Often they are passed off as mere charming rusticana; titles like The Lark and The Sunrise do not help.

From Time Magazine Archive

Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana; biographical sketch and glossary, fingering, phrasing, pedaling and instructive annotations on form and structure and interpretation by Arthur Edward Johnstone; pf.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1958 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

It was but natural that, after "Cavalleria rusticana" had virulently affected the whole world with what the enemies of Signor Mascagni called "Mascagnitis," his next opera should be looked forward to with feverish anxiety.

From A Second Book of Operas by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

What the composer accomplished with tune, characteristic but fluent, eloquent yet sustained, in "Cavalleria rusticana," he tries to achieve in "Iris" with violent, disjointed, shifting of keys and splashes of instrumental color.

From A Second Book of Operas by Krehbiel, Henry Edward