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Nov 15, 2022 at 20:12 comment added Michael Curtis Is "tone poem" to general?
Nov 15, 2022 at 16:23 answer added Laurence timeline score: 1
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Oct 18, 2022 at 21:25 comment added Yorik Would Romantic/Romanticism qualify?
Oct 16, 2022 at 16:00 history edited Richard CC BY-SA 4.0
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Oct 16, 2022 at 16:00 answer added Richard timeline score: 0
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Sep 19, 2022 at 19:32 comment added Theodore @CarlWitthoft Beethoven's titles of the movements in Symphony 6 are (in English translation): "Awakening of cheerful feelings on arrival in the countryside", "Scene by the brook", "Merry gathering of country folk", "Thunder, Storm", and "Shepherd's song. Cheerful and thankful feelings after the storm" which may not all be limited to herding (esp. IV) but definitely are connected to humans in a herding lifestyle.
Sep 19, 2022 at 16:45 comment added Carl Witthoft Well, considering the nickname of Beethoven's 6th, I don't think "pastoral[e]" is in any way limited to herding or domestic animals, or even animals in general.
Sep 18, 2022 at 10:52 comment added phoog @Tim while this question would be acceptable on English Language & Usage, that doesn't mean that it's off topic here. The choice of label used to denote a particular type of piece certainly falls within the scope of musicology, which I would argue is included in the list of allowable topics through its mention of "history."
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Sep 17, 2022 at 1:13 comment added Todd Wilcox It may or may not be a good fit for ELU, or it might be a good fit at Music Fans; either way I don’t think this question is a good fit here. You could even do a web search for analyses and descriptions of pieces that have this character and see if a good word comes up in your research. Here it seems too close to a genre identification question, in my very humble opinion.
Sep 16, 2022 at 17:05 comment added JimM @Theodore And also for a specific type of musical piece. A quick goole search returns Elgar, Glazunov, Wagner, Sullivan, Butterworth, Janacek, Coleridge-Taylor who all wrote a piece with this title (or something similar in the case of Wagner) and I expect there are many more. Its appears to be quite common.
Sep 16, 2022 at 16:46 comment added Theodore @JimM As I understand it, idyll usually refers to the lives of humans in a rustic environment.
Sep 16, 2022 at 16:25 comment added JimM Idyll possibly?
Sep 16, 2022 at 14:49 answer added Andy Bonner timeline score: 0
Sep 16, 2022 at 14:42 history edited Theodore CC BY-SA 4.0
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Sep 16, 2022 at 14:41 comment added Theodore @Tim I know it's potentially off-topic here, but I'm looking for a term that's already in use specifically in music writing or analysis, and it seemed too specialist to get any good results on EL&U.
Sep 16, 2022 at 14:32 comment added Tim This belongs on English Language and Usage, not really here.
Sep 16, 2022 at 14:07 history asked Theodore CC BY-SA 4.0