How To Use Ballade In A Sentence
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Scriabin's early works, until about 1903, are lyrical and effusive, formally inspired by Chopin (waltzes, mazurkas, ballades, preludes, impromptus and scherzos), though where content was concerned his voice was very much his own.
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Songdog's delivery of music and lyric is reminiscent of the old-school '70s singer/songwriter balladeers such as Nick Drake, Jim Croce and at times, Tom Waits.
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It is something that the balladeer likes to refer to as his ‘music-documentary.’
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The author takes the coda of the Chopin F Minor ballade as an example.
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But right now he needs to decide whether he wants to be a balladeer or a singing anatomist.
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The ballade, perhaps an 1848 homage to Liszt's soon-to-be-dead friend Chopin, was played every bit as tempestuously as one could wish for.
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There were ballades, chants royal, kyrielles, sestinas, triolets, villanelles, and virelais to play with, and poets of varying merit had a go.
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He has the power required for the emotive climaxes of the two ballades, and he can scale his sound back for Chopin's more confessional writing.
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Their music is recognised worldwide and their talent as balladeers is limitless.
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There are balladeers; there are hey nonny nonnies; there are men in tights.
Times, Sunday Times
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The self titled album contained a selection of twelve songs which eschewed the power and fury of traditional Irish balladeers for a more gentle, haunting and delicate style.
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A great political balladeer, he is at his superb best when singing melancholy personal ditties, with that soulful voice and tuneful guitar.
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His surviving works include 28 mass movements, 32 psalms, motets, and small sacred works, and 54 chansons, 47 in rondeau form and seven in ballade form.
Archive 2009-04-01
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We are still writing sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, even pantoums and triolets, ballades and rondels, as well as inventing ‘nonce’ forms to suit our uses.
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To remedy that, and give one last nod to summer, here's one of Gershwin's most famous songs, recorded by crooners and rockers, rappers and balladeers: Summertime.
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o 'faddling fictions as -- gestes of jongleurs, tales told by tramping troubadours, ballades of babbling braggarts, romances of roysterous rhymers, she (good gossip!) as I say, having hearkened to and perused the works of such-like pelting, paltry prosers and poets wherein sweep of sword and lunge o' lance is accompted of worthier repute than the penning of dainty distich and pretty poesies pleasingly passionate.
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
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The Mona Liza is a sort of riddle, an acrostic, a poetical decoction, a ballade, a rondel, a villanelle or ballade with double burden, a sestina, that is what it is like, a sestina or chant royal.
Memoirs of My Dead Life
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We are still writing sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, even pantoums and triolets, ballades and rondels, as well as inventing ‘nonce’ forms to suit our uses.
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The rondeau, virelai, and ballade have refrains as part of the poetic structure of their texts; these are distinct, though related.
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The balladeer's 1999 announcement that he would never tour again because of heart problems was premature, as last year's album Live at Vicar Street proved.
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She could make introspective songs like "Funny How Time Slips Away" and "Sometimes When We Touch" her own but since Tina Turner was not known as a balladeer, United Artists refrained from working that angle of the album.
PopMatters
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This song is an example of the ballade, one of the formes fixes, song patterns favored by the troubadours and trouvères.
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Throughout his career, Brahms favored three-part form as the primary organizational type for his ballades.
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With the invention of print, minstrels in their medieval form largely disappeared, becoming balladeers selling broadsheets of their songs and singing to advertise their wares, or stage-players.
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Schumann wrote that the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz gave Chopin the rhythms for parts of his ballades, although I don't know if anyone can really say exactly which poems.
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In the ballade to Philippe, then, the ‘cueur en gage’ likely would not seem particularly clever or pointedly topical.
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His handling of the larger pieces, especially those where narrative played the predominant role, such as the ballades, was inconsistent.
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Gone are the days of programming a Bach prelude & fugue, a Beethoven sonata, a Chopin ballade and then ending with the Prokofiev Toccata.
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His rondeaux and many of his ballades combine different, often highly syncopated, rhythms.
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Other musical events will include crossroads dancing and a concert by the very popular balladeers Celtic Clan.
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The magazine is also where he found his peculiar romantic voice, bittersweet and darkly amusing, like a balladeer serenading a wall.
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In an era overdependent on normcore balladeers, this is potentially great.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now amidst forte and breathless speed the music whirls furiously in a wash of G-minor arpeggios until calando and smorzando signal the performer to slow, to ebb and finally to ritenuto to the sublime second theme of the Ballade.
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Among the clamorous was his old friend and fellow balladeer, Bret Harte.
The Five of Hearts
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After _A Midsummer Holiday_ no one can contend any longer that the ballade is a structure necessarily any more artificial than the sonnet.
Figures of Several Centuries
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Notwithstanding the grandeur and beauty of the grave, the power and passion of the scherzo, this Sonata in B flat minor is not more a sonata than it is a sequence of ballades and scherzi.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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The role as village balladeer is one that Wordsworth and Hawthorne assume in these works.
Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America
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The legend upon which the ballade is based is just ghoulish enough to appeal to a teenager whose favorite pastime was watching horror movies.
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The complete Latin versions of these two ballades are included at the end of this article.
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It seems scarcely justifiable to assign to any particular point of time the "Ballade sent to King Richard" by Chaucer; but its manifest intention was to apprise the king of the poet's sympathy with his struggle against the opponents of the royal policy, which was a thoroughly autocratical one.
Chaucer
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Most people, says one fan of the '80s R&B balladeer, would shut down, would be content to live out their lives offstage, out of the spotlight, wherever it is that old singers go to fade away.
Jazz singer Angela Bofill makes a comeback without voice that made her famous
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Folky guitar strummers, pop balladeers and jazz groups still prefer quiet, seated audiences.
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There were ballades, chants royal, kyrielles, pantoums, rondeaux, rondels, rondeau redoubles, Sicilian octaves, roundels, sestinas, triolets, villanelles, and virelais to play with, and poets of varying merit had a go.
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We are still writing sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, even pantoums and triolets, ballades and rondels, as well as inventing ‘nonce’ forms to suit our uses.
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In addition to the virelai there are, among other things, examples of rondeau, ballade, romance and free song-forms.
Archive 2009-07-01
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After a few giggles from the members of the class, Pfeiffer continued with the second ballade of the Opus 10 set.
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a balladeer is a Dutch band, originating from Amsterdam, formed around singer-songwriter Marinus de Goederen.
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It contrasts Cash, frail and grey, with Cash the gunslinger, the prison poet, the railroad balladeer.
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Then last of all haue ye a proportion to be vsed in the number of your staues, as to caroll and a ballade, to a song, & a round, or virelay.
The Arte of English Poesie
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Kind of, but I've become more sensitive to the balladeers, really.
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We are still writing sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, even pantoums and triolets, ballades and rondels, as well as inventing ‘nonce’ forms to suit our uses.
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It is from these rather complicated forms of verse that the ballades and rondeaux of Villon and Marot are descended.
Introduction
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The balladeer, who connects and comments on the show's segments, ‘is the only voice of reason to the eyes of the audience.’
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The dramatic ballades that Goerne chooses - Belsazar, Die beiden Granadiere, and Die LÃwenbraut - offer their greatness only very reluctantly.
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Every now and then they stretch to a nocturne (average running time: five minutes) or polonaise (around six minutes), but seldom a ballade (close to ten).
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This annual Shaw-curated season at the Pizza Express features a typically wide-ranging lineup, from his partnership with Gwyneth Herbert on a tribute to Joni Mitchell and Fran Landesman (Tue), to collaborations with multi-lingual balladeer Tina May (Wed), soul star Linda Lewis (Thu), and Fairground Attraction singer Eddi Reader (Fri).
This week's new live music
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His arias became more expressive in the 1840s, but he also continued to use popular song types such as barcarolles, ballades, and chansons.
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No longer would courtly ladies be gently serenaded by love-struck balladeers - The Taming Of The Shrew threw out any notion of wooing and replaced it with a more martial one.
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And it's also the birthplace of Banjo Paterson - a balladeer with a romantic inclination when it came to immortalising the bush and its inhabitants.
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To me, he plays it as if it were one of the Chopin ballades.
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Stoll is a supple balladeer whose raw vocal wanderings set against harmonic guitar-strummings make great theme music for your introspective mood.
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It takes genius, however, to cook _bouillabaisse_; and, to parody what De Banville says about his own recipe for making a mechanical "ballade," "en employment ce moyen, on est sur de faire une mauvaise, irremediablement mauvaise
Essays in Little
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I find the fourth the most ruminative of Chopin's ballades.
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From chamber choirs to traditional balladeers, Newfoundland musicians are confidently rooted in local culture
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Within the squares of a chessboard, he has inscribed diverse phrases that can be recombined to form thirty-eight separate ballades.
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I think of Mr. Miller primarily as a hard-bopper and a purely rhythmic player, but his lovely, impressionistic reading of Henry Mancini 's "Dreamsville" shows that he's also a master balladeer when he chooses to be.
Piano Perspectives, Visions of Vaudeville
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We are still writing sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, even pantoums and triolets, ballades and rondels, as well as inventing ‘nonce’ forms to suit our uses.
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As for Chris Brown, he is a romantic balladeer, which is why his misogynist behavior is so controversial.
The American Spectator
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Gone are the days of programming a Bach prelude & fugue, a Beethoven sonata, a Chopin ballade and then ending with the Prokofiev Toccata.
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I despised my father's groaning old balladeers.
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It's true that I'm not known as a crooner or balladeer," says Elling.
News from www.pantagraph.com
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As if to defy the Depression, newspapers put a premium on cleverness, challenging readers with ballades and triolets, rhyming versions of operas, travelogues in verse.
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Ballade" was also the name of a somewhat intricate French stanza form, employed by Gower and Chaucer, and recently reintroduced into English verse by Dobson, Lang, Goose, and others, along with the virelay, rondeau, triolet, etc.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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I apologise to any purists in case the following suggestion is seen as something of a sacrilege, but can I ask you to help us in calling all Yorkshire poets, rhymesters, bards, balladeers and singers to help us save our pub?
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I would recommend Vladimir Horowitz's recordings of the études and mazurkas, Artur Rubinstein's recordings of the polonaises and concertos, and Luiz de Moura-Castro's recordings of the ‘Ballade in G minor’ and the nocturnes.
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His sense of rhythmic freedom, elasticity of phrasing, romantic ardor, and caressing tonal hues set a new standard for the four Chopin Ballades.
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Crooners, balladeers, torch singers - they are all here on this triple CD.
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And that night and the next and the next, I wrote "Gentleman Adventurers," which the critics called the epitome of all that is balladesque.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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There were ballades, chants royal, kyrielles, pantoums, rondeaux, rondels, rondeau redoubles, Sicilian octaves, roundels, sestinas, triolets, villanelles, and virelais to play with, and poets of varying merit had a go.
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Her voice sang in perfect harmony with her instrument, and her heart throbbed with the pulse of a true balladeer.
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In an era overdependent on normcore balladeers, this is potentially great.
Times, Sunday Times
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His performance of the first ballade was effective and powerful.
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Though Manilow is best known as a balladeer, he showed off a few dance moves throughout the
Spinner
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Even Homer, the balladeer, was a Turk, living most of his life in Izmir (Smyrna).
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Every now and then they stretch to a nocturne (average running time: five minutes) or polonaise (around six minutes), but seldom a ballade (close to ten).
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With the exception of the sonnet, the ballade is the noblest of the artificial forms of verse cultivated in English literature.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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One of the ways in which the ballad was disseminated was through public performance in the streets by balladeers, who might also sell copies of the songs, printed on broadsides.
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The E.N.D. One wonders if this song's path to the top is as inevitable as previously thought, as the iTunes Store right now is selling the full-length for the reduced price of $7. 99-but then again, radio programmers seem to have a bit of a thing for the vocal stylings of Ms. Fergalicious when she's in "balladeer" mode, so expect to hear this track a lot at your local Walgreen's by the time that Halloween candy goes on deep discount.
Idolator
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The ballade, full of dramatic intensity, mainly inspired by Polish epic poems, was a new musical form invented by Chopin.
Chopin's 'Soul and Heart'
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Their gretest ballade ys cleped “Tyme of Busynesse,” and gooth sum thing like this:
Archive 2007-11-01
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Beck's work on IRM carries over into four songs – Terrible Angels and Paradisco offer a kind of oscillating glam-funk that goes perfectly with Gainsbourg's clipped, blank vocal style, while All the Rain and White Telephone reimagine her as a 70s balladeer, with an intriguing timelessness emerging.
Charlotte Gainsbourg: Stage Whisper – review
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Ballades and epigrams seem to have been frequent immigrants here.
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This song is an example of the ballade, one of the formes fixes, song patterns favored by the troubadours and trouvères and carried on by polyphonic song composers in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance.
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French kids are supposed to say balladeur instead of Walkman -- but they don't.
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Still, there is considerable personal concern in this ballade; Charles hopes that the influential Philippe and Isabelle won't forget him, and he needs desperately the help of friends.
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Then last of all haue ye a proportion to be vsed in the number of your staues, as to a caroll and a ballade, to a song, & a round, or virelay.
The Arte of English Poesie
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It is in the sombre years of the fourteenth century that the new era of poetry begins, and Guillaume de Machault is the name usually associated with the first effusion of that deplorable cataract of ballades and rondeaux.
Introduction
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There's a little mini-fugue that shows up in this ballade.
Chopin With A Polish Touch
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Although I found his interpretation of the sonata a shade tame, the variations and ballades breathe a truly Olympian spirit of resigned grief.
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At first he wrote nothing but verse -- society verse, ballades, rondeaux, topical verse, and parodies in verse and prose, and then burlesques of books, such as the capital imitation of "The Tale of Two Telegrams" (a "Dolly Dialogue" in the manner of "Anthony Hope"), p. 97, Vol. CVII.,
The History of "Punch"
