ballade
Americannoun
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a poem consisting commonly of three stanzas having an identical rhyme scheme, followed by an envoy, and having the same last line for each of the stanzas and the envoy.
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Music. a composition in free style and romantic mood, often for solo piano or for orchestra.
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prosody a verse form consisting of three stanzas and an envoy, all ending with the same line. The first three stanzas commonly have eight or ten lines each and the same rhyme scheme
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music an instrumental composition, esp for piano, based on or intended to evoke a narrative
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Etymology
Origin of ballade
1485–95; < Middle French, variant of balade ballad
Example Sentences
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He plays Schumann’s “Arabeske” and the Fantasy in C, before a second half of Chopin, including the Ballade No. 4 and the Scherzo No. 1.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2022
The brilliance of his performance to Chopin's Ballade No. 1 magnified the awful nature of the meltdown suffered by two-time U.S. champion Nathan Chen, who had the misfortune of following Hanyu out to the ice.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2018
Skating to Chopin’s Ballade No. 1, he reminded the figure skating world that he has few, if any, peers.
From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2018
Almost all learned the Ballade on entering puberty.
From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2013
It may be admitted, however, that the practitioners of the Ballade and the Rondeau soon fell into puerile and inartistic over-refinements.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
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