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Serenades were played to sound like figments of the imagination.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2022

The Mostly Mozart Festival is now in many ways unrecognizable from its ancestor, “Midsummer Serenades — A Mozart Festival,” which began in 1966 when Lincoln Center’s new theaters opened, complete with air-conditioning.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2016

Serenades are given once a week at Arnold, Constable's to the department that has exceeded its week's quota of sales.

From Time Magazine Archive

The history of Serenades is as ancient as that of Songs.

From Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries by Naylor, Edward W. (Edward Woodall)

Serenades were as common an expedient among the Roman gallants of the days of Augustus as among their modern successors.

From Horace by Martin, Theodore