Get to know Ballade better with 8 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like poem.
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.
Synonyms of Ballade
Using Ballade
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: poem, verse form.
- In the example corpus, ballade often appears in combinations such as: ballade des.
Context around Ballade
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ballade
- In this selection, "ballade" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, geen, put, des, pour and released stand out and add context to how "ballade" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include album geen ballade released in and elder s ballade to the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ballade" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ballade
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It resulted in his impromptu performance of Ballade pour Adeline. (10 words)
Eustache Deschamps wrote a ballade on the great translator and called himself a "nettle in Chaucer's garden of poetry". (20 words)
Henny recorded his first Dutch-language solo-album (Geen Ballade; released in March 1984) with a little help from his friends. (21 words)
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). (45 words)
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. (40 words)
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. (38 words)
Example sentences (8)
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.
Common combinations with ballade
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: