German

Noun

Ballade f ‎(genitive Ballade, plural Balladen)

1. ballad

Declension

English

Noun

ballade ‎(plural ballades)

1. (music) Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
   • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, Prologue:

     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 [<span title=": Through the mad world's scene We are drifting on, To this tune, I ween, "They are dead and gone!"">…]

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

     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.

See also

• ballad
• Ballade (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aðə

Noun

ballade c (singular definite balladen, plural indefinite ballader)

1. ballad (clarification of this Danish definition is being sought)

Declension

References

• “ballade” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Pronunciation

Noun

ballade f ‎(plural ballades)

1. ballade (lyric poem)
2. ballad