ballade

See also: Ballade

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballade. Doublet of ballad.

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 […], 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.

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.

Derived terms

• ballade royal

See also

• ballad
• Ballade (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Abdella

Danish

Etymology

From French ballade.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːdə

Noun

ballade c (singular definite balladen, plural indefinite ballader)

1. ballad (narrative poem)
2. (uncountable) mischief, hijinks
3. (uncountable) trouble, unrest
4. ballad (slow romantic song)

Declension

Declension of ballade

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

Further reading

• “ballade” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “ballade” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

ballade f (plural balladen or ballades, diminutive balladetje n)

1. ballad

References

• “ballade” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ba.lad/

• Audio:

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Noun

ballade f (plural ballades)

1. ballade (lyric poem)
2. ballad

Descendants

• → Danish: ballade
• → English: ballade
• → Romanian: baladă
• → Russian: баллада (ballada)
  • → Georgian: ბალადა (balada)
  • → Kazakh: баллада (ballada)
• → Turkish: balad

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Further reading

• “ballade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.