Pastourelle

The Pastourelle, sometimes referred to as Pastor Elle ( the word comes ultimately from Latin pastoral, " Shepherdess " ), is a formally simple genre that originated in the altokzitanischen poetry around 1150 and has been adopted in other European literatures of the Middle Ages. Theme of Pastourelle is the unexpected meeting of a knight with a shepherdess in the wild. In the original version of the species, the encounter with the devotion of the young girl to the higher social standing advertising man ended, but were quickly written, other variants, insbesondre naturally those in which the man does not get to its destination.

The oldest recorded Pastourelle comes from the Occitan poet Marcabru (L' autrier jost'una sebissa ); the heyday of the genre lay in the 13th century. The later pastoral poetry of the Renaissance and the Baroque is not due to them, but has ancient roots.

Music

In the music of the Baroque, the term " Pastor Ella " is not uncommon in instrumental or orchestral music. For example, in Johann David Heinichen, Kapellmeister of the Dresden court: he imitates in his Concerto in C major ( Seibel 211) in the second sentence under the heading "Past Orell " a rural bagpipe music with strings and oboes faithfully after. Thus, the mode of rural Fête galante is indulged, parallel to the Shepherd poetry in poetry, the pastoral play on stage Pastorale and painting Antoine Watteau.