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serenate

serenate


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Serenata  \Ser`e*na"ta\,  Serenate  \Ser"e*nate\,  n.  [It.  serenata. 
  See  {Serenade}.]  (Mus.) 
  A  piece  of  vocal  music,  especially  one  on  an  amoreus  subject; 
  a  serenade. 
 
  Or  serenate,  which  the  starved  lover  sings  To  his 
  pround  fair.  --Milton. 
 
  Note:  The  name  serenata  was  given  by  Italian  composers  in  the 
  time  of  Handel,  and  by  Handel  himself,  to  a  cantata  of 
  a  pastoreal  of  dramatic  character,  to  a  secular  ode, 
  etc.;  also  by  Mozart  and  others  to  an  orchectral 
  composition,  in  several  movements,  midway  between  the 
  suite  of  an  earlier  period  and  the  modern  symphony. 
  --Grove.