ballade

noun,plural bal·lades [buh-lahdz, ba-; French ba-lad]. a poem consisting commonly of three stanzas having an identical rhyme scheme, followed by an envoy, and having the same last line for each of the stanzas and the envoy. Music. a composition in free style and romantic mood, often for solo piano or for orchestra.

ballade , One of several formes fixes in French lyric poetry and song, cultivated particularly in the 14th–15th centuries. It consists of three main stanzas having the same rhyme scheme plus a shortened final dedicatory stanza; all four stanzas have identical final refrain lines.

ballade: (1) a 14th-15th-century French song form which set poetry to music; (2) an instrumental (usually piano) piece with dramatic narrative qualities. barcarolle: song or instrumental piece in a swaying 6/8 time (i.e., suggesting the lilting motion of a Venetian gondola).

Strictly, the ballade consists of three stanzas and a shortened final dedicatory stanza. All the stanzas have the same rhyme scheme and the same final line, which thus forms a refrain (R). Each of the three main stanzas is built in three sections, the first two of which have the same rhyme scheme.

Ballad poems are poems that are meant to be read aloud. They have a traditional rhyming structure, with lines two and four rhyming. Many ballads also have a refrain, or a line, section, or stanza, that repeats. A stanza is like the paragraph of a poem. Lastly, ballad poems are narratives, or stories.

A Ballade poem should have three stanzas and an envoi. The rhyming pattern for the stanzas is ababbcbC. The rhyming pattern for the envoy is bcbC. The capital letter in the rhyming patterns shows where the refrain should be.

Ballade supreme: A ballade variation that has three stanzas of ten lines with a rhyme scheme of "ababbccdcD" and an envoi of five or six lines with a rhyme scheme of either "ccdcD" or "ccdccD". Double-refrain ballade: A ballade variation in which line four of the first stanza, as well as line eight, become refrains.

Music. is a group of sounds that people have arranged in a pleasing or meaningful way. All cultures of the world make some form of music. Music can be simple - for example, one person tapping out a beat on a log drum or singing a children's song.

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The ballade as a verse form typically consists of three eight-line stanzas, each with a consistent metre and a particular rhyme scheme. The last line in the stanza is a refrain. The stanzas are often followed by a four-line concluding stanza (an envoi) usually addressed to a prince.

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.

Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. Definitions of music vary depending on culture, though it is an aspect of all human societies and a cultural universal.