Serenade (disambiguation)

A serenade, in its most general sense, is a musical composition and/or performance intended to honour an individual. It may also refer to:

Music and ballet

• Serenade Chamber Orchestra, an Armenian orchestra founded in 1991

Classical

• Serenades (Brahms), two of the earliest efforts by Johannes Brahms to write orchestral music
• Sérénade, by Charles Gounod
• Серенада Serenade 1875, by Modest Mussorgsky
• Serenade (ballet), a 1934 ballet by George Balanchine
• Serenade (Stravinsky), a composition for solo piano completed by Igor Stravinsky in 1925
• Serenade (Bruch), a 1900 composition for violin and orchestra by Max Bruch
• The Serenade, an 1897 Broadway operetta with music and lyrics by Victor Herbert and book by Harry B. Smith

Albums

• Serenade (Neil Diamond album) (1974)
• Serenade (Katherine Jenkins album) (2006)
• Serenades (album), 1993 debut album by the British rock band Anathema

Songs

• "Serenade", a 1976 song by the Steve Miller Band from the album Fly Like an Eagle
• "Serenade" (Shades song) (1997)
• "Serenade" (Tackey & Tsubasa song) (2004)
• "Serenade", a 1983 song by Steeler from the album Steeler
• "Serenade" (Dover song), a 1997 song by Dover

Film

• The Serenade (film), a 1916 film featuring Oliver Hardy
• Serenade (1927 film), starring Adolphe Menjou
• Serenade (1940 film), a French film
• Serenade (1956 film), starring Mario Lanza, based on the novel of the same name by James M. Cain

Other uses

• MV Serenade, a French ocean liner and later cruise ship
• Serenade (novel), a 1937 novel by James M. Cain
• Serenade (1959 TV series), an Australian TV series
• Serenade, a character in the video game Eternal Sonata

See also

• Serenata (choir), a children's choir in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia