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Ballade meaning
Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements. | 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.
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It resulted in his impromptu performance of Ballade pour Adeline.
Daniel Elder’s “Ballade to the Moon” contained a single crescendo in it that would have in itself been worth your time to hear.
A 1935 play by the Czech authors Jan Werich and Jiří Voskovec called Balada z hadrů ("Ballade from rags") was inspired by Villon's work and adapted some of his poems as lyrics for a number of songs.
Eustache Deschamps wrote a ballade on the great translator and called himself a "nettle in Chaucer's garden of poetry".
Henny recorded his first Dutch-language solo-album (Geen Ballade; released in March 1984) with a little help from his friends.
In Richard Strauss opera Der Rosenkavalier, (libretto by Hugo von Hofmanssthal) at the end of Act I the Marschallin sings: "such' dir den Schnee vom vergangenen Jahr", an allusion to the refrain from the Ballade des dames du temps jadis.
The British modern jazz group, the Don Rendell - Ian Carr Quintet, included a track "Les Neiges d'Antan" on their album Phase III (1967) The French singer-songwriter Léo Ferré put Ballade des pendus to music in his album La Violence et l'Ennui (1980).
The French singer-songwriter Georges Brassens has a song called "Ballade des dames du temps jadis", where he puts Villon's poem into music.