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Look up: Serenade

  1. Serenade
    A serenade is evening music, especially that sung or played in the open air. Originally it was the song of a troubadour wooing a girl beneath her window (and is used as such, mockingly, in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni). Later it was expanded into a form of agreeable, entertaining music for...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  2. serenade
    [n] - a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman 2. [v] - sing and play for somebody
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Serenade
    Ser`e·nade' noun [ French sérénade , Italian serenata , probably from Latin serenus serene (cf. Serene ), misunderstood as a derivative from Latin serus late. Confer Soirée .] (Mus.) (a) Mu...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/72

  4. Serenade
    Ser`e·nade' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Serenaded ; present participle & verbal noun Serenading .] To entertain with a serenade.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/72

  5. Serenade
    Ser`e·nade' intransitive verb To perform a serenade.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/72

  6. serenade
    noun a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman
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  7. Serenade
    • (n.) A piece of music suitable to be performed at such times. • (n.) Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies. • (v. ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. serenade
    originally, a nocturnal song of courtship, and later, beginning in the late 18th century, a short suite of instrumental pieces, similar to the ... [2 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/67

  9. Serenade
    Serenade is a cultivated variety of potato.
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  10. serenade
    serenade [Ital. sera=evening], term used to designate several types of musical composition. Opera and song literature yield numerous examples of the serenade sung or played by a lover at night beneath his beloved's window; outstanding is Deh, vieni alla finestra from Mozart's Don Giovanni. In the la...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A08444

  11. serenade
    Musical piece for chamber orchestra or wind instruments in several movements, originally intended for informal evening entertainment, such as Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik/A Little Night Music
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  12. Serenade
    :This article is about the musical form. See Serenade (disambiguation) for other meanings. In music, a `serenade` (or sometimes `serenata`) is a musical composition, and/or performance, in someone`s honor. Serenades are typically calm, light music. The word Serenade is derived from the Italia...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenade

  13. Serenade
    (film) `Serenade`, a 1956 Warner Bros. release, was tenor Mario Lanza`s fifth film, and his first on-screen appearance in four years. Directed by Anthony Mann and based on the 1937 novel of the same name by James M. Cain, the film also stars Joan Fontaine, Sara Montiel (billed as Sarit...
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  14. Serenade
    (song) "`Serenade`" is Tackey & Tsubasa`s fourth single under the Avex Trax label. Overview: Serenade is Tackey & Tsubasa`s fourth single, and currently their lowest selling and lowest ranking single. The a-side song "Serenade" was used as the Olympus "μDig...
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  15. Serenade
    (disambiguation) A `serenade`, in its most general sense, is a musical composition and/or performance intended to honour an individual. It may also refer to: In `music`: In `film`: `Other`:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenade

  16. Serenade
    (album) Neil Diamond`s second album for Columbia Records, `Serenade` was released in 1974. Three singles were lifted from the album: "Longfellow Serenade" (#5), "I`ve Been This Way Before" (#34) and "The Last Picasso". The album was also issued as a quadra...
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  17. Serenade
    (Bruch) Max Bruch`s `Serenade in A minor`, Op. 75 is a composition for violin and orchestra and was composed in 1900. The work has four movements, and takes approximately 35 to 40 minutes to perform: # Andante con moto # Allegro moderato, alla marcia # Notturno # Allegro energico e vivace
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenade

  18. Serenade
    (ballet) `Serenade` is a ballet by George Balanchine, subsequently co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet, to Tschaikovsky`s 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48. Students of the School of American Ballet gave the first performance of Serenade on Sunday, Ju...
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