Crossword clues for aubade
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aubade \Au`bade"\, n. [F., fr. aube the dawn, fr. L. albus
white.]
An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an
evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive
of morning.
--Grove.
The crowing cock . . .
Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear.
--Longfellow.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"musical announcement of dawn," from French aubade (15c.), from Provençal aubada, from auba "dawn," from Latin alba, fem. of albus "white" (see alb).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A song or poem greeting or evoking the dawn. 2 A morning love song; a song of lovers parting in the morning.
Wikipedia
An aubade is a morning love song (as opposed to a serenade, which is in the evening), or a song or poem about lovers separating at dawn. It has also been defined as "a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak".
In the strictest sense of the term, an aubade is a song from a door or window to a sleeping woman. Aubades are generally conflated with what are strictly called albas, which are exemplified by a dialogue between parting lovers, a refrain with the word alba, and a watchman warning the lovers of the approaching dawn.
The aubade gained in popularity again with the advent of the metaphysical fashion. John Donne's poem "The Sunne Rising" is an example of the aubade in English. Aubades were written from time to time into the 18th and 19th century. In the 20th century, the focus of the aubade shifted from the genre's original specialized courtly love context into the more abstract theme of a human parting at daybreak. In this reformulated context several notable aubades were published in the 20th century, such as "Aubade" by Philip Larkin. French composers of the turn of the 20th century wrote a number of aubades. In 1883, the French composer Emmanuel Chabrier composed an "Aubade" for piano solo, inspired by a four-month visit to Spain. Maurice Ravel included a Spain-inspired aubade entitled "Alborada del gracioso" in his 1906 piano suite Miroirs. An aubade is the centerpiece of Erik Satie's 1915 piano suite Avant-dernières pensées. The composer Francis Poulenc later wrote (in concerto form) a piece titled Aubade; it premiered in 1929.
In 2014, postmodern dancer and choreographer Douglas Dunn presented a piece titled Aubade, with costumes, video and lighting by Charles Atlas, and poetry by Anne Waldman.
Usage examples of "aubade".
She was generally sitting watch when dawn came, and so her morning aubade was his call to wakefulness.
Rhapsody felt the urge to sing her morning aubade, but her voice would not sound.
Rhapsody watched as the bright celestial light dimmed in the brightening sky, then began to sing her last customary aubade, the song to Seren, the star she was born beneath, on the other side of the world.
I would be happy to teach you the elegy for Seren, the aubade that the ancients composed upon leaving the old world.
Liringlas sang for the sun as it sank below the edge of the world, welcoming it again in the morning with the dawn aubade, the love song to the morning sky.
The Liringlas mother sings the song she has chosen through the course of each day, through mundane events, in quiet moments when she is alone, before each morning aubade, after each evening vesper.
Fire of dawn, light of the day Warming the world with your glow Awaken again we, your children Who, chanting the aubade, know That we have welcomed sunrise.
In the hothouse Aubade stood absently caressing the branches of a young mimosa, hearing a motif of sap-rising, the rough and unresolved anticipatory theme of those fragile pink blossoms which, it is said, insure fertility.
Taking up a tossaway from the stack, Picardy grasped the small loop and held the aubade over the crystal jet.
In her brief time as queen, Rhapsody had taught the aubade to Tyrian, and in turn the forest had taught it to them.
On the dawning light hung, trembling, the notes of a pastoral aubade somebody was picking out on a guitar.
When she first married Ashe and moved to Navarne Achmed found to his shock that he missed her Lirin sunrise aubades and sunset devotions as well, the love songs of her people, sung to the heavens and the stars they had been born beneath, ceremonies she had marked daily all the time that he had known her.
Rhapsody cleared her throat, ragged from the salt, and quietly sang one of the ancient aubades, the love songs to the sky that Liringlas had been marking time with for as long as she knew.
It was still too early for the habilines’ aubades, and the two-legged corpse under my paws was good for another meal only if I ate daintily and paced myself.