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单词 ballade
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Definition of ballade in English:

ballade

noun baˈlɑːdbəˈlɑd
  • 1A poem consisting of one or more triplets of stanzas with a repeated refrain and an envoi.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The complete Latin versions of these two ballades are included at the end of this article.
    • We are still writing sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, even pantoums and triolets, ballades and rondels, as well as inventing ‘nonce’ forms to suit our uses.
    • The rondeau, virelai, and ballade have refrains as part of the poetic structure of their texts; these are distinct, though related.
    • Within the squares of a chessboard, he has inscribed diverse phrases that can be recombined to form thirty-eight separate ballades.
    • There were ballades, chants royal, kyrielles, sestinas, triolets, villanelles, and virelais to play with, and poets of varying merit had a go.
    • As if to defy the Depression, newspapers put a premium on cleverness, challenging readers with ballades and triolets, rhyming versions of operas, travelogues in verse.
  • 2A piece of music in romantic style with dramatic elements, typically for piano.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The legend upon which the ballade is based is just ghoulish enough to appeal to a teenager whose favorite pastime was watching horror movies.
    • After a few giggles from the members of the class, Pfeiffer continued with the second ballade of the Opus 10 set.
    • This song is an example of the ballade, one of the formes fixes, song patterns favored by the troubadours and trouvères.
    • In the ballade to Philippe, then, the ‘cueur en gage’ likely would not seem particularly clever or pointedly topical.
    • The dramatic ballades that Goerne chooses - Belsazar, Die beiden Granadiere, and Die LÃwenbraut - offer their greatness only very reluctantly.
    • He has the power required for the emotive climaxes of the two ballades, and he can scale his sound back for Chopin's more confessional writing.
    • Gone are the days of programming a Bach prelude & fugue, a Beethoven sonata, a Chopin ballade and then ending with the Prokofiev Toccata.
    • Schumann wrote that the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz gave Chopin the rhythms for parts of his ballades, although I don't know if anyone can really say exactly which poems.
    • Still, there is considerable personal concern in this ballade; Charles hopes that the influential Philippe and Isabelle won't forget him, and he needs desperately the help of friends.
    • Every now and then they stretch to a nocturne (average running time: five minutes) or polonaise (around six minutes), but seldom a ballade (close to ten).
    • Although I found his interpretation of the sonata a shade tame, the variations and ballades breathe a truly Olympian spirit of resigned grief.
    • The author takes the coda of the Chopin F Minor ballade as an example.
    • To me, he plays it as if it were one of the Chopin ballades.
    • His handling of the larger pieces, especially those where narrative played the predominant role, such as the ballades, was inconsistent.
    • The ballade, perhaps an 1848 homage to Liszt's soon-to-be-dead friend Chopin, was played every bit as tempestuously as one could wish for.
    • Throughout his career, Brahms favored three-part form as the primary organizational type for his ballades.
    • His arias became more expressive in the 1840s, but he also continued to use popular song types such as barcarolles, ballades, and chansons.
    • His performance of the first ballade was effective and powerful.
    • I find the fourth the most ruminative of Chopin's ballades.
    • His rondeaux and many of his ballades combine different, often highly syncopated, rhythms.

Origin

Late Middle English: earlier spelling and pronunciation of ballad.

Rhymes

Assad, aubade, avant-garde, backyard, bard, Bernard, bombard, canard, card, charade, chard, couvade, croustade, Cunard, facade, glissade, guard, hard, ill-starred, interlard, lard, Montagnard, nard, pard, petard, pomade, promenade, regard, rodomontade, roulade, saccade, Sade, salade, sard, shard, unmarred, unscarred, yard
 
 

Definition of ballade in US English:

ballade

nounbəˈlädbəˈlɑd
  • 1A poem normally composed of three stanzas and an envoi. The last line of the opening stanza is used as a refrain, and the same rhymes, strictly limited in number, recur throughout.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The complete Latin versions of these two ballades are included at the end of this article.
    • Within the squares of a chessboard, he has inscribed diverse phrases that can be recombined to form thirty-eight separate ballades.
    • As if to defy the Depression, newspapers put a premium on cleverness, challenging readers with ballades and triolets, rhyming versions of operas, travelogues in verse.
    • The rondeau, virelai, and ballade have refrains as part of the poetic structure of their texts; these are distinct, though related.
    • There were ballades, chants royal, kyrielles, sestinas, triolets, villanelles, and virelais to play with, and poets of varying merit had a go.
    • We are still writing sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, even pantoums and triolets, ballades and rondels, as well as inventing ‘nonce’ forms to suit our uses.
  • 2A short, lyrical piece of music, especially one for piano.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • To me, he plays it as if it were one of the Chopin ballades.
    • I find the fourth the most ruminative of Chopin's ballades.
    • His performance of the first ballade was effective and powerful.
    • Every now and then they stretch to a nocturne (average running time: five minutes) or polonaise (around six minutes), but seldom a ballade (close to ten).
    • Schumann wrote that the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz gave Chopin the rhythms for parts of his ballades, although I don't know if anyone can really say exactly which poems.
    • His handling of the larger pieces, especially those where narrative played the predominant role, such as the ballades, was inconsistent.
    • The dramatic ballades that Goerne chooses - Belsazar, Die beiden Granadiere, and Die LÃwenbraut - offer their greatness only very reluctantly.
    • The ballade, perhaps an 1848 homage to Liszt's soon-to-be-dead friend Chopin, was played every bit as tempestuously as one could wish for.
    • The legend upon which the ballade is based is just ghoulish enough to appeal to a teenager whose favorite pastime was watching horror movies.
    • This song is an example of the ballade, one of the formes fixes, song patterns favored by the troubadours and trouvères.
    • His rondeaux and many of his ballades combine different, often highly syncopated, rhythms.
    • In the ballade to Philippe, then, the ‘cueur en gage’ likely would not seem particularly clever or pointedly topical.
    • Still, there is considerable personal concern in this ballade; Charles hopes that the influential Philippe and Isabelle won't forget him, and he needs desperately the help of friends.
    • His arias became more expressive in the 1840s, but he also continued to use popular song types such as barcarolles, ballades, and chansons.
    • Gone are the days of programming a Bach prelude & fugue, a Beethoven sonata, a Chopin ballade and then ending with the Prokofiev Toccata.
    • He has the power required for the emotive climaxes of the two ballades, and he can scale his sound back for Chopin's more confessional writing.
    • Although I found his interpretation of the sonata a shade tame, the variations and ballades breathe a truly Olympian spirit of resigned grief.
    • After a few giggles from the members of the class, Pfeiffer continued with the second ballade of the Opus 10 set.
    • Throughout his career, Brahms favored three-part form as the primary organizational type for his ballades.
    • The author takes the coda of the Chopin F Minor ballade as an example.

Origin

Late Middle English: earlier spelling and pronunciation of ballad.

 
 
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