Aubade
The Aubade (French aubade , from aube "dawn" → Tagelied ; plural aubades ), Spanish alborada , is one in the 17th / 18th. A musical genre (singing with or without accompaniment or purely instrumental) that was created in the 19th century and was played at the courts as the “morning serenade ” and forms a counterpart to the serenade , the “evening serenade”. Aubaden also often had a ceremonial or official character. Since Louis XIV at the Versailles court, the king has been serenaded on January 1st by drummers of the regiment. Following this example, officials in the provincial towns were honored with an aubade on the occasion of their election by drummers and trumpeters .
In the 19th century, Aubade or Alborada also appeared as the title of songs and character pieces, such as:
- Aubade for voice and piano by Georges Bizet (undated)
- Aubade et Allegretto for strings and wind instruments by Édouard Lalo (1872)
- Alborada from Capriccio espagnol by Nicolai Rimski-Korsakow (1887)
- Alborada del gracioso from the Miroirs by Maurice Ravel (1905)
- Aubade for piano and 18 instruments by Francis Poulenc (1929)
The so-called Siegfried Idyll Richard Wagner also corresponds to the character of an Aubade , which he dedicated to his wife Cosima at Christmas 1870 as "Tribscher Idyll with Fidi birdsong and orange sunrise" ; It was presented to her on Christmas Day as a “symphonic birthday greeting” for her 33rd birthday on the stairs of the Tribschen house by musicians from the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under the direction of Hans Richter .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Marc Honegger, Günther Massenkeil (ed.): The great lexicon of music. Volume 1: A - Byzantine chant. Updated special edition. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1987, ISBN 3-451-20948-9 , p. 120.
- ↑ Johann Gottfried Walther : Musical Lexicon [...]. Wolffgang Deer, Leipzig 1732, p. 56 ( Aubade ; there also "antelucani ad fores alicujus gratulantium concentus")