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PASTUREL (French pastourelle, lit. - shepherdess; Provencal pastorela, pastorita) - a kind of love songs of the Truvers and Troubadours. As a rule, it is built in the form of a dialogue; typical text content - a knight solicits the love of a rural beauty. Sometimes he succeeds in this, sometimes he is forced to flee, pursued by her husband or lover. Poetic. and muses. P.'s form is often complex, music is cheerful, playful, often more serious, not devoid of features of reverie. P. has been known since the 11th century. One of the earliest examples is P. troubadour Markabrue “Once I met a shepherdess by the hedge” (L'autrier jost una sebissa, trovey pastora): In the 18th century and later P. often called any poem about a shepherd, as well as his muses. incarnation (Pasturel C. Goldoni in his opera libretto "The Philosopher of Campagna", which was the basis of the same. Galuppi's opera,1754; this P. was subsequently put to music by F. Schubert).