Serenade vs. Aubade — What's the Difference?

In music, a serenade (; also sometimes called serenata, from the Italian) is a musical composition or performance delivered in honor of someone or something. Serenades are typically calm, light pieces of music.

An aubade is a morning love song (as opposed to a serenade, intended for performance in the evening), or a song or poem about lovers separating at dawn. It has also been defined as "a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak".In the strictest sense of the term, an aubade is a song sung by a departing lover to a sleeping woman.

A musical performance given to honor or express love for someone, often by one person.

A song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak.

South Atlantic US See shivaree.

A poem or song of or about lovers separating at dawn.

An instrumental composition written for a small ensemble and having characteristics of the suite and the sonata.

A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.

To perform a serenade for.

A morning love song, or a song of lovers parting in the morning.

To perform a serenade.

(music) A concert held at dawn or in the morning, especially outdoors.

A love song that is sung directly to one's love interest, especially one performed below the window of a loved one in the evening.

An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning.

(music) An instrumental composition in several movements.

(transitive) To sing or play a serenade for (someone).

Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; - usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies.

To entertain with a serenade.

To perform a serenade.

A musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form

A song characteristically played outside the house of a woman

Sing and play for somebody;