Aubade

[2] In the strictest sense of the term, an aubade is a song sung by a departing lover to a sleeping woman.

[3] The tradition of aubades goes back at least to the troubadours of the Provençal schools of courtly love in the High Middle Ages.

In the 20th century the focus of the aubade shifted from the genre's original specialized courtly-love context into the more generalized theme of a human parting at daybreak.

[6] Maurice Ravel included a Spain-inspired aubade entitled "Alborada del gracioso" in his 1906 piano suite Miroirs.

[10] 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.