From en.wiktionary.org:
[Ballade]
** English
*** Etymology
[en] Borrowed from [en]. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
2. * [chapter=Prologue]
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1915 | author=w:Richard Le Gallienne | title= Vanishing Roads and Other Essays (see http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11675)
|passage="Dead and gone!" as Andrew Lang re-echoes in a sweetly mournful
BALLADE[: Through the mad world's scene We are drifting on, To this tune, I
ween, "They are dead and gone!"]}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=December 30, 2007 | author=Anthony Tommasini | title=A Patience to Listen, Alive and Well | work=New York Times | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/arts/music/30tomm.html
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] A poem of one or more triplet s of seven- or eight-line stanza s, each ending with the same line as refrain , and usually an envoi ; more generally, any poem in stanzas of equal length.
**** Derived terms
- ballade royal
*** See also
- [en]
- [Ballade (music)]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Danish
*** Etymology
From [da].
*** Pronunciation
- [da]
*** Noun
[n]
1. ballad (narrative poem)
2. [da] mischief , hijinks
3. [da] trouble , unrest
4. ballad (slow romantic song)
**** Declension
[n]
*** Further reading
- [R:DDO]
- [R:ODS online]
** Dutch
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
*** Noun
[f]
1. ballad
*** References
- [R:GB]
** French
[lang=fr]
*** Etymology
[fr], from [fr], from [oc], from [fr], borrowed from, or related to, [fr].
[fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [en] (lyric poem)
2. ballad
**** Descendants
- [da]
- [en]
- [et]
- [lv]
- [liv]
- [lt]
- [ro]
- [ru]
- [tr]
*** References
- [R:New English Dictionary]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]