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serenade

Musical piece for chamber orchestra or wind instruments in several movements, originally intended for informal evening entertainment, such as Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik/A Little Night Music.

Serenade

Work for violin, percussion, and strings by Leonard Bernstein, after Plato's Symposium, first performed in Venice on 12 September 1954, with Isaac Stern.



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Troop after troop of citizens came to serenade Wilson, and require a speech, and shout themselves hoarse over every sentence that fell from his lips--for all his sentences were golden, now, all were marvelous.
Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context
or what could he expect but to find his mistress agreeably engaged with a rival on his return, and his serenade, as they call it, as little regarded as the caterwauling of a cat in the gutter?
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
Kneeling at the foot of the tower, he sang a serenade in melting tones.
Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
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