Ser·e·na·ta Ser·e·nate n.  Mus. A piece of vocal music, especially one on an amoreus subject; a serenade.
 Or serenate, which the starved lover sings
 To his pround fair.   --Milton.
 Note: ☞ The name serenata was given by Italian composers in the time of Handel, and by Handel himself, to a cantata of a pastoreal of dramatic character, to a secular ode, etc.; also by Mozart and others to an orchectral composition, in several movements, midway between the suite of an earlier period and the modern symphony.

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