ballata
Americannoun
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ballate
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Etymology
Origin of ballata
1755–65; < Italian < Old Provençal balada ballad
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We are, moreover, justified in concluding from the character of the final chorus that it was a ballata or dance song and hence a frottola of the carnival song variety.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson
The ballata has come down to us from our forefathers, and we must respect it as an ancient custom.
From Colomba by Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson) Loyd
The third was probably intended to continue this subject, and the fourth was destined to the laws of the ballata and sonetto.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
According to the custom of her country, Colomba improvised a ballata in presence of her father's corpse, and before his assembled friends.
From Colomba by Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson) Loyd
The dance following the ballata must have been effective.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson
He found nothing' easier than to throw aside his professor's mantle and to improvise ballate for women to chant as they danced their rounds upon the Piazza di S. Trinità.
From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds
Though unequal in quality, his sonnets and ballate, whether separately published or scattered through his numerous prose works, have a higher merit.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
There is hardly a sonnet, there are certainly neither ballate, canzoni, nor capitoli which do not contain some reference to Monna Selvaggia's fine eyes, and always to the same tune.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Besides the smaller poems contained in the Vita Nuova and Convito there are a considerable number of canzoni, ballate and sonnetti bearing the poet’s name.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
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