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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.

::Mozart’s serenades include some of the most well known classical music ever written. They include ''Eine Kleine Nachtmusick'' (“A Little Night Music”), the ''Haffner Serenade'' ''Posthorn Serenade'', and, for winds, the great ''Gran Partita'' for 13 instruments.

::Mozart’s serenades include some of the most well known classical music ever written. They include ''Eine Kleine Nachtmusick'' (“A Little Night Music”), the ''Haffner Serenade'' ''Posthorn Serenade'', and, for winds, the great ''Gran Partita'' for 13 instruments.

[[Category: Musical forms]]

[[Category:Musical forms]]