ballade
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balladi
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ballade englanniksi
Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
(RQ:Besant Ivory Gate) 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.
{{quote-book|en|year=1915|author=Richard Le Gallienne|title=Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
{{quote-journal|en|date=December 30, 2007|author=Anthony Tommasini|title=A Patience to Listen, Alive and Well|work=New York Times|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/arts/music/30tomm.html
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.
ballad (narrative poem)
ballad (slow romantic song)
(l) (lyric poem)