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▪ I. serenade, n.|sɛrɪˈneɪd|
Also 7 serenate, 8 seranade.
[a. F. sérénade (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), app. ad. It. serenata: see serenata.]
1. A performance of vocal or instrumental music given at night in the open air, esp. such a performance given by a lover under the window of his lady.
1656Blount Glossogr. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 236 They go and give the Governour a Serenade. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 768 Serenate, which the starv'd Lover sings To his proud fair. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull ii. v, The Musick and Serenades that were given her, sounded more ungratefully in her Ears, than the Noise of a Screech Owl. 1835Lytton Rienzi iii. iii, My voice awaked the stillness of the waving sedges with a soldier's serenade. 1884F. M. Crawford Roman Singer i. 163 A serenade is an every-day affair.
b. transf. and fig.
1649Lovelace Lucasta, To a Lady Madam A. L. 118 Or the soft Serenades above In calme of Night, when Cats make Love. 1656Cowley Misc., Swallow 3 Foolish Prater, what do'st thou So early at my window do With thy tuneless Serenade? 1695J. Edwards Author. O. & N. Test. III. 27 We are enabled to..entertain our selves with the serenades of a good conscience. 1843–54Surtees Handley Cross lix, When I will finish wot I've left unsung, as the tom-cat said when the brick-bat cut short his serenade. 1871Forsyth Highl. Central India 391, I listened one night to the most remarkable serenade of tigers I ever heard.
†2. A poem suitable for a serenade. Obs.
1710Tatler No. 222 ⁋4 Horace's tenth Ode of the third book was originally a Serenade.
3. Mus. A piece of music suitable or specially composed for singing or playing in the open air as a complimentary performance.
1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., The Pieces compos'd or play'd on these Occasions, are also call'd Serenades. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xvi, Some of their servants..were performing a simple serenade. 1883Rockstro in Grove's Dict. Mus. III. 467/2 The most delicious example of this that we possess is the Serenade in Sterndale Bennett's Chamber Trio in A, Op. 27. a1897tr. Riemann's Dict. Mus. s.v., The only thing retained from the past in serenades is that they have more movements than is usual in a sonata or symphony.
4. attrib. and Comb.
1908Rockstro in Grove's Dict. Mus. IV. 418/2 The two Serenade trios of Beethoven. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 663/1 The six-movement scheme (though without the serenade style) was adopted by Beethoven in..the string quartet in B flat. Ibid., The classics of the serenade forms are among the works of Mozart and Haydn.
▪ II. serenade, v.|sɛrɪˈneɪd|
[f. the n.]
1. trans. To entertain (a person) with a serenade.
1672Wycherley Love in Wood ii. i, I intend to serenade the whole Park to-night. 1691Comedy, Win Her & Take Her i. ii. 5 A fourth [would] make verses upon you; treat, present, and Serenade you. 1727Sewall Diary 15 Apr., Last night three musicians serenaded me under my chamber window. 1842Mrs. Kirkland Forest Life I. 253 It's only a parcel of fellers gone to serenade an old widower that's been a-marrying of a young girl. 1887Fenn Master Cerem. vi, I am going to beg our guests to come with us and serenade a lady whose name I will not mention.
b. transf. and fig.
1749Fielding Tom Jones v. ii, From serenading his patient every hunting morning with the horn under his window, it was impossible to withhold him. 1774G. White Selborne, To Barrington 28 Sept., In hot mornings several [swifts]..dash round the steeples and churches, squeaking as they go in a very clamorous manner: these..are supposed to be males serenading their sitting hens. 1825Selby Illustr. Brit. Ornith. 240 The male bird..uttering the singular but unmusical notes with which he serenades his mate during incubation.
2. intr. (or absol.) To perform a serenade.
1668Dryden Even. Love ii. i. 29 When I go a Serenading again with 'em, I'll give 'em leave to make Fiddle-strings of my small-guts. 1710Tatler No. 222 ⁋13 Our honest countrymen..seldom begin to sing until they are drunk; which also is usually the time when they are most disposed to Serenade. 1832W. Irving Alhambra I. 299, I'll warrant, these cavaliers have their loves among the Spanish beauties..and will soon be serenading under their balconies.
Hence sereˈnading vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1673Dryden Assign. ii. iii. 19 Where is this Serenading Rascall? 1705J. Taylor Journ. Edin. (1903) 90 We caus'd 3 Serenading Tunes to be particularly plai'd at Sir Lothian Blackets, Enamoretta's and Astraca's houses. 1797T. Holcroft tr. Stolberg's Trav. III. lxxxviii. (ed. 2) 449 The custom of serenading..ever will prevail. |