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Thread #43237   Message #631302
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
19-Jan-02 - 06:28 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Carol of the Bagpipes
Subject: RE: Carol of the Bagpipes
In music, a siciliana is a slow pastoral piece or slow dance, as Gloredhel says. A number of the classical composers used it, and other dance forms, in parts of their compositions. I hear a slight resemblance, but I would guess that it is coincidental.