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, […], 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.
  2. (poetry) 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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Danish

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -aːdə

Noun

ballade c (singular definite balladen, plural indefinite ballader)

  1. ballad (clarification of this definition is needed)

Declension
Declension of ballade
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ballade balladen ballader balladerne
genitive ballades balladens balladers balladernes

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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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