With the exception of the sonnet, the ballade is the noblest of the artificial forms of verse cultivated in English literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

There's a little mini-fugue that shows up in this ballade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chopin With A Polish Touch] Reference

An orchestral ballade won much success in Baltimore in 1901.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

It's a ballade, a dramatic piece, like some of the bigger Chopin or Liszt ballades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opera Fusion] Reference

Among her maturer works are an excellent ballade and several other piano selections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

Their gretest ballade ys cleped “Tyme of Busynesse,” and gooth sum thing like this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Awesome Things] Reference

The film was to be named "Destino" after a ballade by Armando Domínguez but was never finished.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Europe Inspired Disney's Wonderful World] Reference

I was learning the G minor ballade at the time and thought she couldn't have given him a better name.    From Wordnik.com.  [xenu-phobia] Reference

Eustache Deschamps and Christine de Pisan were among the poets who cultivated the ballade most abundantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

The ballade, a typically French form, has been extensively employed in no other language, except in English.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

In addition to the virelai there are, among other things, examples of rondeau, ballade, romance and free song-forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

The ballade, full of dramatic intensity, mainly inspired by Polish epic poems, was a new musical form invented by Chopin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chopin's 'Soul and Heart'] Reference

No nocturne or ballade of Chopin can be seen as a cry to rally round the banner of that composer's virulent anti-semitism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speaking of new music...] Reference

But a ballade without an envoi lacks that section whose function is to tie together the rest, and complete the whole as a work of art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Mrs. Beach's piano works consist of a cadenza to Beethoven's C minor concerto, a valse-caprice, a ballade, four sketches, a "Bal Masque".    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

The structure of a ballade or a sonnet may be beautiful, apart from the melody of the words or the persuasiveness of the emotion or idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

A young man writes a ballade and dreams over a bit of lace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful Lady] Reference

I have found an unpublished ballade he wrote on the subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference

The D Minor projects the sensibility of ballade in gypsy style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

The words of Henley's ballade were still running through my head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gloved Hand] Reference

I wrote a ballade the other day on the women of two centuries hence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference

It is a ballade of the gem with a very high popularity in the tune that Jaco made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference

A Chopin ballade must have quite a different interpretation from a Scarlatti Capriccio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression] Reference

So I took matches, burnt, and with just 60 of them wrote the first stanza of a ballade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enormous Room] Reference

The melody of complete expression of feelings and the song produces the highest ballade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference

It listens to an overwhelming expression as a ballade that doesn't stay in a simple composition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference

And straightway he perceived that triple invocation could be, rather neatly, worked out in ballade form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages] Reference

And one of the young business-men did some clever juggling; and Mr.. Ryder sang a little French ballade; and Mr. Randolph -- poor man!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference