Frequently represented in French poetry, a fixed form consisting of three seven or eight-line stanzas using no more than three recurrent rhymes with an identical refrain after each stanza and a closing envoi repeating the rhymes of the last four lines of the stanza A variation containing six stanzas is called a double ballade Sidelight: The ballade was prominent in French literature from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century and was favored by many poets, including Francois Villon, for example, in his "Des Dames du Temps Jadis " In the nineteenth century it was popular with poets like Verlaine and Baudelaire In English literature, Chaucer wrote ballades and some late-nineteenth century English poets also used the form (Compare Chant Royal)
In the medieval period a form of trouvere music and poetry In later time, German poetry set as a through-composed song
French poetic form and chanson type of the Middle Ages and Renaissance with courtly love texts Also a Romantic genre, especially a lyric piano piece
A name for a miniature piano piece of dramatic nature Ballades sometimes suggest a program
the term originally described a form of song for dancing Chopin first used this term to describe an extended single-movement piece for piano in which the narrative is suggested, but without any reference to any so-called extra-musical source, like a book or a play
A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy
A type of poem, usually with three stanzas of seven, eight, or ten lines and a shorter final stanza (or envoy) of four or five lines All stanzas end with the same one-line refrain
A French verse form consisting most often of three eight-line stanzas having the same rhyme pattern, followed by a four-line envoy In a typical ballade, the last lines of each stanza and of the envoy are the same Among the most famous ballades are Chaucer's "Ballade of Good Advice" and Rossetti's translation of Francois Villon's "Ballade of Dead Ladies", which asks in each stanza and in the envoy, "But where are the snows of yester-year?" The ballade first rose to prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries, popularized by French poets like Guillaume de Machaut and Eustache Deschampes It was perfected in the 16th century by Villon, and later feel into disrepute when 17th century poets like Moliere and Boileau mocked its conventions
poem with three seven-, eight-, or ten-line stanzas and refrain Respectively, these have the rhyme schemes and envoys ababbcC bcbC (cf Chaucer's "Ballade of Good Counsel"), ababbcbC bcbC (Dorothy Parker's "Ballade at Thirty-five"), and ababbccdcD ccdccD (cf Swinburne's "A Ballad of Fran&cced;ois Villon") The refrains appear at the end of each stanza and of the concluding envoy Other examples are Chaucer's "Ballade to Rosamound" (which lacks an envoy), Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Ballad of Dead Ladies," Algernon Charles Swinburne's "A Ballade of Burdens," William Ernest Henley's "Ballade of Dead Actors," and Austin Dobson's seven-line-stanza "Ballad of Imitation "
A formalized Old French verse composition consisting of three 8-line stanzas and a 4-line envoi The last line of each stanza is a refrain
One of several formes fixes in French lyric poetry and song, cultivated particularly in the 14th-15th centuries. It consists of three main stanzas having the same rhyme scheme plus a shortened final dedicatory stanza; all four stanzas have identical final refrain lines. The texts were often solemn and formal, containing elaborate symbolism and classical references. Though present in the poetry of many ages and regions, the ballade in its purest form was found only in France and England. Its precursors can be found in the songs of the troubadours and trouvères
ballade
Расстановка переносов
bal·lade
Турецкое произношение
bıläd
Произношение
/bəˈläd/ /bəˈlɑːd/
Этимология
[ b&-'läd, ba- ] (noun.) 14th century. From French ballade