What is a serenade?

Serenade is a kind of music genre, a song used to express affection to the beloved. Chivalry literature originated in Europe in the Middle Ages and spread in European countries such as Spain and Italy. At first, a young man serenaded his lover's window at night and poured out his love. The melody was beautiful, euphemistic and lingering, and he was often accompanied by guitar or mandolin. With the development of the times, its forms have also developed. The serenades composed by Schubert and Tosini published in "Famous Songs at Home and Abroad" are widely circulated in the world.

The characteristics of serenade are:

1. The melody is light and tactful, and the accompaniment imitates plucked instrument's voice, sometimes corresponding to the song, creating a beautiful and quiet artistic conception for the song.

2. plucked instrument, such as guitar and mandolin, is often accompanied when singing, and the song is lingering and melodious.

3. Serenade is a common characteristic music. The so-called characteristic music is music that is created for a specific purpose or performed on a specific occasion and has distinctive characteristics in genre.

representative works of serenade:

① Mozart's Serenade for Strings in G Major

Mozart, an Austrian composer, finished it in Vienna on August 24th, 1787 and was named after the most fashionable German term Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. This song is a model of instrumental serenade in the mid-18th century.

② Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings

Serenade for Strings in C Major was written in 188. On December 3rd of the same year, it was performed by teachers and students of Moscow Conservatory of Music, and the first performance was a great success. Among them, the melodies of the second and third movements are the most famous, and they are often performed alone. The music is saturated with rich Russian folk songs from beginning to end.

③ dvorak's Serenade for Strings in E Major

Serenade for Strings in E Major was written in May 1875. It is the most elegant, lyrical, natural and perfect work created by the composer in his youth, and it is also the representative of dvorak's simple and warm style. Today, this piece has been ranked as one of the most popular works in the same genre with Mozart and Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's string serenades.

④ Mozart's hafner Serenade

This serenade in D major was written in 1776, numbered K.25(K.248b), ranking seventh among all Mozart's serenades. It is called "hafner Serenade" because this work was specially created by the composer for Siegmundt hafner, the mayor of Salzburg, his hometown.