Pastoral
Genre relating to shepherds and the countryside / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Pastoral (disambiguation).
"Bucolic" redirects here. For the type of poetic meter, see dactylic hexameter.
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.
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The genre is also known as bucolic, from the Greek βουκολικόν, from βουκόλος, meaning a cowherd.[1][2]