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The custom of serenading in this manner began in the Medieval era, and the word "serenade" as commonly used in current English is related to this custom. Music performed followed no one particular form, except that it was typically sung by one person accompanying himself on a portable instrument, most likely a guitar, lute or other plucked ...
Cantata: sung: A piece for orchestra and singers Capriccio: caprice: A lively piece, free in form, often used to show musical skill Cavatina: small instrumental tone: A simple melody or song Coda: tail: The end of a piece Concerto: concert: A work for one or more solo instruments accompanied by an orchestra Concertino: little concert
Ganz kleine Nachtmusik (German for Quite (or Very) Little Night Music), K. 648, [1] also known as Serenade in C, [2] is a composition for string trio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), written in the mid to late 1760s.
Serenade No. 11 for winds in E ♭ major, K. 375 (1781–82) Serenade No. 12 for winds in C minor, K. 388/384a (1782) Serenade No. 13 for string quartet and double bass in G major, "Eine kleine Nachtmusik", K. 525 (1787) Serenade in C or Ganz kleine Nachtmusik for 2 violins and cello, K. 648 (mid to late 1760s) Others. Cassation in G major, K ...
The meaning of the term changed over time, from the simple single-voice madrigal of the early 17th century, to the multi-voice "cantata da camera" and the "cantata da chiesa" of the later part of that century, from the more substantial dramatic forms of the 18th century to the usually sacred-texted 19th-century cantata, which was effectively a ...
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.
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 ...
Serenade in E-flat major (Saint-Saëns) Ständchen (Schubert) Serenata in vano; Serenad; Two Serenades; Solace (Joplin) Solomon (Boyce) Serenade in F major (Stanford) Ständchen (Strauss) Serenade (Stravinsky) Serenade (song from The Student Prince) Serenade for Strings (Suk)