ballade

See also: Ballade

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballade.

Noun

ballade (plural ballades)

  1. (music) Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
    • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, OCLC 16832619:
      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 […]
    • 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: -aːdə

Noun

ballade c (singular definite balladen, plural indefinite ballader)

  1. ballad (clarification of this definition is needed)

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.lad/
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Noun

ballade f (plural ballades)

  1. ballade (lyric poem)
  2. ballad
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