Examples of serenade

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Many of these scenes depict lute-playing lovers serenading their mistresses.
At times, however, characters perceive certain passages as musical peformances; usually these are 'realistic' numbers such as marches, serenades, and dances.
Suitors in plays and novels, too, often present their sweethearts with songs they have written themselves, either written down or as serenades, which is also what happened in real life.
One need hardly stress how important this broad category has been to operatic discourse, with its songs, ballads and serenades, its hymns, prayers and invocations, its dances and similar genres.
While in the oratorio this struggle between good and evil is described from a religious perspective, the serenade has a secular character.
The serenade begins with a choir of patriots, celebrating the meeting.
The twenty-nine instrumentalists listed as accompanying the serenade were all members of die king's musical establishment.
In his serenade, for example, the rhymes are obvious and stilted; more grotesque still are the violations of metre and the misplaced accents.
The final two papers of the session presented two approaches to understanding genre designations, in this case serenade and capriccio.
Suitors, standing on the ground, serenade the women with reed pipe instruments.
The serenade is a prime example of a dramatic, theatrical and operatic convention growing from the scenic constraints.
The outline of the 1780 serenade is symmetrical.
Such a serenade is from the past, a typical product of 'serenade-givers', over with even as we listen and framed by its own doomed future.
A second dialogue follows in the lower strings, presenting the motto theme once again, now integrated into the prevailing 6/8 of the serenade.
We need a global strategy rather than local reflex actions, moral admonishments, sentimental serenades or impulsive and unenforceable economic sanctions.
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