AUBADE (a French word from cube, the dawn), the dawn song of the troubadours of Provence, developed by the Minne singers (q.v.) of Germany into the Tagelied, the song of the part ing at dawn of lovers at the warning of the watchman, and now applied, analogously with its counterpart "serenade," to musical compositions in general of a suitable type. In France the term is applied also to the performance of a military band in the early morning in honour of some distinguished person.