ballade
See also: Ballade
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ballade. Doublet of ballad.
Noun edit
ballade (plural ballades)
- (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 […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
- 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[1]:
- 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.
- (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.
Derived terms edit
See also edit
- ballad
- Ballade (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -aːdə
Noun edit
ballade c (singular definite balladen, plural indefinite ballader)
- ballad (narrative poem)
- (uncountable) mischief, hijinks
- (uncountable) trouble, unrest
- ballad (slow romantic song)
Declension edit
Declension of ballade
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | ballade | balladen | ballader | balladerne |
genitive | ballades | balladens | balladers | balladernes |
Further reading edit
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
ballade f (plural balladen or ballades, diminutive balladetje n)
References edit
- “ballade” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French balade, from Provençal balada (“song for dancing”), from balar (“to dance”), from Late Latin ballare, borrowed from, or related to, Ancient Greek βαλλίζω (ballízō). Doublet of ballée.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ballade f (plural ballades)
Descendants edit
- → Danish: ballade
- → English: ballade
- → Romanian: baladă
- → Russian: баллада (ballada)
- → Turkish: balad
References edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Further reading edit
- “ballade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.