siciliano
Americannoun
plural
sicilianos-
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
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
Sibelius, features of his style, 230, 324, 327. siciliano, 76.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
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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