Associations to the word «Ballade»

Wiktionary

BALLADE, noun. (music) Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.

Dictionary definition

BALLADE, noun. A poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope