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ballade

noun

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballade. Doublet of balada and ballad.

  1. borrowed from ballade

Definitions

  1. Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative…

    Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.

    • "Dead and gone!" as Andrew Lang re-echoes in a sweetly mournful ballade[…
    • 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.

  2. A poem of one or more triplets of seven- or eight-line stanzas, each ending with the same…

    A poem of one or more triplets of seven- or eight-line stanzas, each ending with the same line as refrain, and usually an envoi; more generally, any poem in stanzas of equal length.

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Derived

ballade royal

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA