to play a piece of music or sing for someone, especially for a woman while standing outside her house at night:
Romeo serenades Juliet in the moonlight.
Shoppers are serenaded with live piano music.
Playing music
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serenade
noun [ C ]
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/ˌser.əˈneɪd/a song or piece of music sung or played for someone
a piece of classical music in several parts:
"Moonlight Serenade"
Musical pieces
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[Definition of serenade from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press]serenade | American Dictionary
serenade
verb [ T ]
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/ˌser·əˈneɪd/to play music or sing for someone:
On Saturdays, shoppers at the mall are serenaded with live piano music.
serenade
noun [ C ]
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/ˌser·əˈneɪd/a piece of music or song performed for someone, esp. outside at night
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There are strong influences from chamber music, and serenades can be subtly inserted into a chamber music program.
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However, it also continued its more traditional venues such as serenades, and performances at major family events.
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His compositional output includes mostly instrumental works, such as symphonies, orchestral works, serenades, sonatas and ballets.
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Lyric songs are a diverse category that consist of lullabies, serenades and work songs, and are frequently improvised though based on a traditional repertoire.
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One is the traditional restrained courting favored by the older generations, which often featured serenades and doing chores for the girl's parents.
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In the song, the singer appears to be serenading his love as they walk down the road and claiming life's a holiday with her.
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Levine caresses and serenades her simultaneously during the video.
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Nightly he serenades her with a large but unspecified string instrument.
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Like most of his orchestral serenades, a symphony was arranged from a subset of the serenade's movements.
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He serenades her and follows her into her teepee.
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The repertory of the lira includes accompaniment songs [e.g. serenades and songs of anger] and songs suitable for dancing [tarantellas].
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She later serenades her lover, and she dances in a house.
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A mariachi band serenaded production of the last car.
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Besides some four dozen operas, there are oratorios, solo cantatas with keyboard accompaniment, motets and vocal serenades.
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His serenades planted inside her a love for music, which grew stronger every day against her family's wishes.
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