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The '''Serenade''' as a musical form began life as the Italian ''serenata'', a vocal work, usually a love song, to be sung outdoors. (The lady at her window or on the balcony was not obbligato.) As such, serenades appeared in [[Mozart]]’s [[opera]]s ''Abduction from the Seraglio'' and ''[[Don Giovanni]]''; but at the same time, increasingly, the form was being taken over by the instrumental serenade – a sort of ''divertimento'' – music to be played outdoors in the evening purely as entertainment – a diversion. Mozart himself wrote many of them - some extremely well known – for a variety of combinations of instruments.

The '''Serenade''' as a musical form began life as the Italian ''serenata'', a vocal work, usually a love song, to be sung outdoors. (The lady at her window or on the balcony was not obbligato.) As such, serenades appeared in [[Mozart]]’s [[opera]]s ''Abduction from the Seraglio'' and ''[[Don Giovanni]]''; but at the same time, increasingly, the form was being taken over by the instrumental serenade – a sort of ''divertimento'' – music to be played outdoors in the evening purely as entertainment – a diversion. Mozart himself wrote many of them - some extremely well known – for a variety of combinations of instruments.