Siciliana

Bang. Sicilian from Sonata for Flute and Clavier Es-dur, BWV 1031 (fragment)

Siciliana ( Italian: siciliana - Sicilian) - an ancient Italian dance of a pastoral nature, possibly of Sicilian origin. It was especially common in instrumental and vocal music of the XVII-XVIII centuries.

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Almost all Baroque composers, A. Scarlatti , J. Zelenka , J.-F., used Sicilian in their work . Rebel, G. F. Handel (part in the suite “Music of the Fireworks” ), I. S. Bach and others. Less commonly, this dance is found in 19th century music ( G. Donizetti , D. Verdi , P. Mascagni ). In the XX century, Sicilian was remembered by composers who worked in the style of neoclassicism ( O. Respighi , F. Pulenk ^[1] , I. Stravinsky , A. Roussel, L. Dallapikkola , H. Rodrigo and others).