balladeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

ballade (複数形 ballades)

1. (music) Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:

     Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.

   • 1915, Richard Le Gallienne, Vanishing Roads and Other Essays:

     "Dead and gone!" as Andrew Lang re-echoes in a sweetly mournful ballade […]

   • 2007 December 30, Anthony Tommasini, “A Patience to Listen, Alive and Well”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Even a 10-minute Chopin ballade for piano, let alone Messiaen’s 75-minute “Turangalila Symphony,” tries to grapple with, activate and organize a relatively substantial span of time.

2. (poetry) 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.

派生語

• ballade royal

参考

• ballad
• Ballade (music) on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• Abdella