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A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "dancing songs" (L: ballare, to dance), yet becoming "stylized forms of solo song" before being adopted in England. [1]
A ballade (/bəˈlɑːd/; French: ; and Latin : [bälˈlʲäːrɛ]) refers to a one-movement instrumental piece with lyrical and dramatic narrative qualities reminiscent of such a song setting, especially a piano ballade.
The ballade (/ b ə ˈ l ɑː d /; French:; not to be confused with the ballad) is a form of medieval and Renaissance French poetry as well as the corresponding musical chanson form. It was one of the three formes fixes (the other two were the rondeau and the virelai ) and one of the verse forms in France most commonly set to music between the ...
By the Victorian era, ballad had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called "royalty ballads". [20] Some of Stephen Foster's songs exemplify this genre. By the 1920s, composers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway used ballad to signify a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form.
Ballade (classical music), a musical setting of a literary ballad, or a romantic instrumental piece, especially for piano; Ballade (forme fixe), a French poetic and musical form common in the 14th and 15th centuries; Ballata, a similar Italian poetic and musical form
Early chansons tended to be in one of the formes fixes—ballade, rondeau or virelai (formerly the chanson baladée)—though some composers later set popular poetry in a variety of forms. The earliest chansons were for two, three or four voices, with first three becoming the norm, expanding to four voices by the 16th century.
A Ukrainian version of the folk song has the same name "Two sisters" and also known by the song's first line "Ой, світив місяць ще й дві зорі" meaning "The moon and two stars are shining." The story is about the older sister who was jealous about the beauty of the younger sister so she tricked the younger sister to come ...
There are dramatic and dance-like elements in Chopin's use of the genre, and he is a pioneer of the ballade as an abstract musical form. The four ballades are said to have been inspired by a friend of Chopin's, poet Adam Mickiewicz. [1] [4] The exact inspiration for each ballade, however, needs to be clarified and disputed.