SERENATA

Etymology

Noun

serenata (plural serenatas)

(music) A type of baroque cantata performed outdoors, in the evening, with mixed vocal and instrumental forces

Anagrams

• Near East, arsenate, arsetane, asterane

Source: Wiktionary


Ser`e*na"ta, Ser"e*nate, n. Etym: [It. serenata. See Serenade.] (Mus.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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