serenata
Americannoun
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a form of secular cantata, often of a dramatic or imaginative character.
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an instrumental composition in several movements, intermediate between the suite and the symphony.
noun
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an 18th-century cantata, often dramatic in form
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another word for serenade
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Etymology
Origin of serenata
1715–25; < Italian serenata evening song, equivalent to seren ( o ) serene + -ata noun suffix, associated with sera evening; cf. soiree
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My mother trailed behind me with serenata, a cold codfish salad, and a crock of steaming hot arroz con gandules.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021
Last January, Tines joined Costanzo and soprano Lauren Snouffer in a gender-fluid production of Handel’s rarely staged serenata, “Aci, Galatea e Polifemo” directed by Christopher Alden.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2021
Written for a wedding in 1708, this serenata — a form somewhere between a sonata and an opera — is about two servants who fall prey to their master, the malevolent Polifemo.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2017
A 300-year-old serenata, it languished forgotten until it was recently rediscovered by scholars.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2016
We got our seats in the stalls every evening for a couple of weeks, through the kindness of Mr. Hamilton Braham, whom Barty knew, and who played Polyphemus in Handel's famous serenata.
From The Martian by Du Maurier, George
High in the branches, tree frogs sang shrill serenatas.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
Beautiful women, serenatas, bull-fights, courtesy, azure sky—all have inscribed upon the traveller's mind a pleasing and semi-romantic impression, a conjunto, whose interest and attraction, with perchance a regretful note, time does not easily dispel.
From Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by Hume, Martin
These were the "serenate publiche," common and commercial affairs, which the private serenata left behind in contempt, steering past their flaring lights for the dark waters of romance which lay beyond.
From The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
Love, he says, reigns and revels in Eden, not in court amours, Mixed dance, or wanton mask, or midnight ball, Or serenate, which the starved lover sings To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain.
From Milton by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
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