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Serenade by Judith Leyster. In music, a serenade (/ ˌ s ɛr ə ˈ n eɪ d /; also sometimes called a serenata, from the Italian) is a musical composition or performance delivered in honour of someone or something.
The following is a list of works by P. D. Q. Bach, a fictitious Bach family member, the alter ego of composer Peter Schickele.The first section lists, in alphabetical order, those works which have been recorded, are listed in the annotated catalogue of P. D. Q. Bach music in The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach, and/or are listed on the Theodore Presser website.
Bach's earliest cantatas are church cantatas, although his early Wedding Quodlibet is sometimes grouped with the secular cantatas. [11] [12] The oldest extant secular cantata is from his Weimar period where he composed the Hunting Cantata (BWV 208, first version) for the birthday of Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels on 23 February 1713.
George Frideric Handel. Acis and Galatea (HWV 49) is a musical work by George Frideric Handel with an English text by John Gay.The work has been variously described as a serenata, a masque, a pastoral or pastoral opera, a "little opera" (in a letter by the composer while it was being written), an entertainment and by the New Grove Dictionary of Music as an oratorio.
Cantata – Vocal composition with instrumental accompaniment often based on a religious text. Chaconne – Musical form based on a repeating harmonic progression, often featuring variations over a bass ostinato. Chorale or Chorale setting – Form originating or related to the Lutheran chorale. Lutheran chorale – Musical setting of a ...
Wolfgang Schmieder, the editor of that catalogue, grouped the compositions by genre, largely following BG for the collation (e.g. BG cantata number = BWV number of the cantata): [5] The BWV is a thematic catalogue, thus it identifies every movement of every composition by its first measures, like the opening of BWV 1006, movement 2 (Loure) above.
Its Italian libretto was by Nicola Giuvo, secretary and adviser to the duchess, [1] and it prefigures that of Handel's 1718 English-language masque Acis and Galatea, although Handel drew little on the music of the serenata when he prepared the masque (he did take care to make the villain, the one-eyed giant Polyphemus, half-lovable, with a ...
cantata for soprano, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra incl. part-song "As torrents in summer" pub. separately — Longfellow and Harry Arbuthnot Acworth: Novello 31: 1900: Two songs: song: voice and piano 1. "After" 2. "A Song of Flight" — — — 31.1: 1900 "After" song: voice and piano — Philip Bourke Marston: Boosey 31.2 ...