Aubade

Aubade

An aubade is a poem or song of or about lovers separating at dawn.

Aubade has also been defined as "a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak."

The form has some dramatic elements, since the poem is often a dialogue between the lovers, one saying that dawn is near and they must part, and the other answering no. There is often a refrain, in which the watchman, or occasionally the jealous husband, warns the lovers of the approaching dawn.Aubades were in the repertory of troubadours in Europe in the Middle Ages. An early English example is in Book III of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde". The love poetry of the 16th century dealt mostly with unsatisfied love, so the aubade was not a major genre in Elizabethan lyric. However, there is an aubade embedded in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", starting with the famous lines:

:Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day::It was the nightingale, and not the lark,:That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear

The aubade gained in popularity again with the advent of the metaphysical fashion; John Donne's poem "The Sunne Rising" is one of the finest examples of the aubade in English. Aubades were written from time to time in the 18th and 19th century, although none of them quite up to metaphysical standards.

There have been several notable aubades in the 20th century, such as a major poem titled "Aubade" by Philip Larkin in which the lover can be seen as either life or death. The French composer Francois Poulenc also wrote (in concerto form) a piece titled "Aubade" which premiered in 1929. Maurice Ravel also included an aubade (Alborado del Gracioso) in his 1906 piano suite Miroirs. An example of a modern aubade is Eagle-Eye Cherry's 1997 single "Save Tonight".

ee also

* Alba
* Tagelied
* Lyric poetry
* Serenade

External links

* [http://www.howtodothings.com/hobbies/how-to-write-an-aubade How to Write an Aubade]
* [http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/aubade/ 'Aubade' - a poem by Philip Larkin]


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  • aubade — [ obad ] n. f. • 1432; albade déb. XVe; provenç. aubada → 1. aube ♦ Concert donné, à l aube ou dans la matinée, sous les fenêtres de qqn. Donner une aubade à sa belle. Abusivt Sérénade. ● aubade nom féminin (provençal aubada) Littéraire. Concert… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • aubade — AUBADE. subst. fém. Concert de Musique ou d Instrumens que l on donne vers l aube du jour, à la porte, on sous les fenêtres d une personne. Donner une aubade. Donner des aubades.Aubade, se dit figurément et à contre sens, d Une insulte, d une… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • aubade — Aubade. s. fem. Concert de Musique ou d instruments que l on donne vers l aube du jour, à la porte ou sous les fenestres d une personne. Donner une aubade. donner des aubades. Aubade, Se dit figur. & à contre sens d une insulte, d un vacarme qu… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • 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. [1913 Webster] The crowing cock . . . Sang his… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • aubade — musical announcement of dawn, from Fr. aubade (15c.), from Prov. aubada, from auba dawn, from L. alba, fem. of albus white (see ALB (Cf. alb)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • Aubade — (fr., spr. Obad ), 1) Morgenständchen, der Serenade, dem Abendständchen, entgegengesetzt; 2) Lärmen, den man Einem zum Hohne macht, Katzenmusik …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Aubade — (franz., spr. ōbād , von aube, »Morgenröte«). soviel wie Tagelied (s. d.), das Gegenteil von Serenade. Wie der Name der letztern, so ist (im 17.–18. Jahrh.) auch der der A. für Instrumentalwerke gebraucht worden …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Aubade — (frz., spr. obahd), Tagelied (s.d.), Morgenständchen …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Aubade — (frz. obad), Morgenmusik, Morgenständchen, im Gegensatz zur Serenade; auch etwas wie Katzenmusik …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • Aubade —   [o bad(ə); zu französisch aube »Morgendämmerung«] die, / n, Alborada, im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert das instrumentale Morgenständchen im Unterschied zur abendlichen Serenade; im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert auch Titel von Charakterstücken.   …   Universal-Lexikon

  • aubade — ž DEFINICIJA v. obada …   Hrvatski jezični portal

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