| Title: | Serenade |
| Original Title: | Sérenade |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 15 (1765), p. 81 |
| Author: | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (biography) |
| Translator: | Patrick Day [University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire] |
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| Citation (MLA): | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Serenade." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Patrick Day. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.671>. Trans. of "Sérenade," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 15. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Serenade." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Patrick Day. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.671 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Sérenade," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 15:81 (Paris, 1765). |
Serenade, type of concert performed at night beneath someone’s windows. It is normally composed only of instrumental music; sometimes vocals are added. One also refers to serenades as the pieces one composes, or that one plays on these occasions. Serenades have long fallen out of fashion, and no longer exist except among common people. This word, of Italian origin, probably comes from sereno , that which is serene; and by metonymy, the evening .