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n. - A poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy.

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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.
  • There's a little mini-fugue that shows up in this ballade.
  • An orchestral ballade won much success in Baltimore in 1901.
  • It's a ballade, a dramatic piece, like some of the bigger Chopin or Liszt ballades.
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