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
Etymology
Origin of serenata
1715–25; < Italian serenata evening song, equivalent to seren ( o ) serene + -ata noun suffix, associated with sera evening; cf. soiree
Example Sentences
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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
Pasquale took mental note of this, and, as an exquisite piece of gallantry, determined to delight and surprise his beloved with a serenata, composed by himself, and carefully rehearsed with his companions.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
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