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Meanings of ballade in English

Russian
баллада
Portuguese
balada pop
Spanish
balada
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balada

Musical setting of a literary ballad; poetic and musical genre in the 18th and 19th centuries, popular with the Romantics and their later epigones.

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          Usage of ballade in English
          1
          A young man writes a ballade and dreams over a bit of lace.
          The Beautiful Lady
          2
          And as capable as any Chopin ballade at exciting Viola's blood.
          The irish devil
          3
          The second ballade possesses beauties in no way inferior to those of the first.
          Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2
          4
          I'm going to write a ballade to her and mail it to her anonymously.
          Kathleen
          5
          I like that ballade of yours on 'Henri at Cahors.'
          The Grey Cloak
          6
          I read somewhere a ballade asking-whereare the "best sellers" of yesteryear?
          Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
          7
          The rhymer's eyes widened as he drew breath to blow forth the envoi of his ballade.
          If I Were King
          8
          So I took matches, burnt, and with just 60 of them wrote the first stanza of a ballade.
          The Enormous Room
          9
          Vaguely he tried to shape a ballade, a noble ballade in honour of all things good to eat.
          If I Were King
          10
          I began, choosing the form of an old French ballade; it is the easiest because it is the most restricted-
          Tremendous Trifles
          11
          Could there be a more poignant symbol of irreclaimable vanished things than that so happily hit on by the old ballade-maker:
          Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
          12
          Victor laughed, and began explaining the difficulty of constructing a ballade of double refrain, when a hand fell upon the door.
          The Grey Cloak
          13
          Somebody had deloused Villon and shown that the Grosse Margot of the ballade was not a woman but an inn sign.
          Down There
          14
          We passed a very happy day together, in honour of which I made yesterday a holiday...I have a new ballade by Chopin.
          Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1
          15
          There is quite a bundle of Mr. Baring's letters to Gilbert, and, in spite of the apologetic ballade, a fair number of answers.
          Gilbert Keith Chesterton
          16
          He had his dear, illiterate mother, for whom, and at whose request, he wrote that unexpected ballade of prayer to the Mother of God.
          Old and New Masters
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          Ballade through the time