
1) Ballet by George Balanchine 2) Bit of morning music 3) Dawn music 4) French word used in English 5) Morning love poem 6) Morning music 7) Poem greeting the dawn 8) Western medieval lyric form
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An aubade is a morning love song (as opposed to a serenade, which is in the evening), or a song or poem about lovers separating at dawn. It has also been defined as `a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak`. In the strictest sense of the term, an aubade is a song from a door or window to a sleeping woman......
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musical announcement of dawn; sunrise song
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a medieval love poem welcoming or lamenting the arrival of the dawn. An example is John Donne's 'The Sun Rising.'
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• (n.) An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning.
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(also called a dawn song) A genre of poetry in which a short poem's subject is about the dawn or the
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A medieval love poem welcoming or lamenting the arrival of the dawn. An example is john donne's 'the
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Au`bade' noun [ French, from
aube the dawn, from Latin
albus white.] An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning.
Grove. « The crowing cock . . . Sang his
aubade with lusty v...
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Poem written to celebrate the dawn e.g. The Sun Rising by John Donne.
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a piece sung or played outdoors at dawn, usually as a compliment to someone.
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