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Webster 1913 Edition


Ballade

Bal-lade′

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A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.

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Ballade

Ballade

See also: ballade

German

Noun

Ballade f (genitive Ballade, plural Balladen)

  1. ballad

Declension

ballade

ballade

See also: Ballade

English

Noun

ballade (plural ballades)

  1. (music) Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
    • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, Prologue:
      Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language [] his clerks [] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
    • 1915, Richard Le Gallienne, Vanishing Roads and Other Essays:
      "Dead and gone!" as Andrew Lang re-echoes in a sweetly mournful ballade [<span title=": Through the mad world's scene We are drifting on, To this tune, I ween, "They are dead and gone!"">…]
    • 2007 December 30, Anthony Tommasini, “A Patience to Listen, Alive and Well”, in New York Times:
      Even a 10-minute Chopin ballade for piano, let alone Messiaen’s 75-minute “Turangalila Symphony,” tries to grapple with, activate and organize a relatively substantial span of time.

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Danish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aðə

Noun

ballade c (singular definite balladen, plural indefinite ballader)

  1. ballad (clarification of this Danish definition is being sought)

Declension

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French

Pronunciation

Noun

ballade f (plural ballades)

  1. ballade (lyric poem)
  2. ballad