Category:Serenata

Ser`e*na"ta, ser"e*nate, n. Etym: [it. serenata. See serenade.] (mus.)

Defn: 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.