serenate

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serenate - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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           Or serenate, which the starved lover sings
           To his pround fair.                      --Milton.
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     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.
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