Literary, art, and music genre that takes its name from the lifestyle of shepherds herding livestock
For other uses, see Pastoral (disambiguation).
"Bucolic" redirects here. For the type of poetic meter, see dactylic hexameter.
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Alvan Fisher, Pastoral Landscape, 1854
The pastoral genre of literature, art, or music depicts an idealised form of the shepherd's lifestyle – herding livestock around open areas of land according to the seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. The target audience is typically an urban one. A pastoral is a work of this genre. A piece of music in the genre is usually referred to as a pastorale.
The genre is also known as bucolic, from the Greek βουκολικόν, from βουκόλος, meaning a cowherd.[1][2]
^βουκολικόν. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project. βουκόλος. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
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