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Definition of Serenata
1. n. A piece of vocal music, especially one on an amoreus subject; a serenade.
Definition of Serenata
1. Noun. (music) A type of baroque cantata performed outdoors, in the evening, with mixed vocal and instrumental forces ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Serenata
1. a dramatic cantata [n -TAS or -TE]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Serenata
Literary usage of Serenata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"A serenata performed at Drury Lane in 1782. "Beauty, arise, shew forth thy glorious
shining." First line of a song in • The Pleasant Comedy of Patient ..."
2. The Indebtedness of Handel to Works by Other Composers: A Presentation of by Sedley Taylor (1906)
"DETAILED COMPARISON OF PART I. OF THAT ORATORIO WITH PORTIONS OF A serenata BY
STRADELLA, AN ORGAN-PIECE BY EERL AND FOUR EARLIER COMPOSITIONS OF HANDEL'S ..."
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