Ballade

At the origin

The poetic kind appears at the 14th century. The word comes from old the Provençal trotted , which means " danse" because the text was inseparable from the music. In spite of that, it ends up being dissociated of the music, but the musical quality is created in the writing even poem. Indeed, the ballade with the characteristic to repeat same a Towards, the Refrain, at the end of each of the three stanzas of huitains which compose it like at the end of the sending of four worms. The whole of the ballade consists of octosyllabic and the Rime S are cross there.

In theory, the sending of a ballade always starts with the word Prince.

At the XIXe century

At the 19th century Chopin reinvents the ballade by composing four immense poems for the piano without definite form but in which it expresses all his talent.

The style corresponding completely at the time romantic, of many musicians such as Franz Liszt will compose in their turn of chief-of similar works.

Recent meaning

With the Anglo-Saxon influence, the direction of the word is extended to an account or a song telling the life of a person or facts precise. The account is always epic (near to the gesture), often dramatic (in this direction, synonymous with Complainte), sometimes comic. If it relates to the love between two people, one identifies it with the lovesong. The word is used as well to indicate musical poetries, songs, partitions or cartoons.

It is a term also used in metal or Hard rock to indicate a calm and soft piece, generally accompanied with the acoustic guitar. It often makes it possible to propose vocal qualities of a singer. The majority of the groups of metal integrate a ballade by album in general. Example: " Send Me year Angel " of Scorpions, " The Answer Within" Dregs; of Dream Theater, etc

Composition of a ballade

revision on the observation of ballades of Eustace Deschamps and François Villon.

great ballade

three ten-line stanzas of decasyllables and a quintil of decasyllables, the sending
uses four rhymes has, B, C, D.
in the three ten-line stanzas they are laid out ABABBCCDCD, in the sending they are CCDCD.
To note the axial symmetry of the provision of the rhymes:

let us note 1 for has and D and 2 for B and C

it comes:

12122 22121

small ballade

three huitains the octosyllabic ones and a quatrain the octosyllabic ones, the sending
uses three rhymes has, B, C
in the three huitains, the rhymes are laid out: ABABBCBC, in the sending it is BCBC. (it is said sometimes that the sending takes again the diagram of second half of the other stanzas.)

In both cases

last the worms of all the stanzas is the same one, it is a refrain;
the sending begin with the apostrophe with the dedicatee from the poem, often Prince .

Works or creations carrying this title

the Balade of Nostre Dame grinds beautiful Eustace Deschamps
the Ballade of hung the of François Villon.
Ballade of the ladies of time formerly of François Villon, put in music by Georges Brassens.
Ballades, collection of Poetry of Goethe appeared in 1787.
the ballade of the duel in Act I of Cyrano of Bergerac of Edmond Rostand.
four ballades for piano (opus 23,38,47 and 52) of Frederic Chopin.
Ballade of Sacco and Vanzetti, song popularized in English by Joan Baez and in France by Georges Moustaki.
Ballade, song of Jacques Brel.
the Ballade of the salted sea, Cartoon of Hugo Pratt which introduces the character of Corto Maltese
Blue Bird Balad, Cartoon of Malik appeared in Spirou
the ballade of Dalton, Cartoon of the series of the Lucky Luke of Morris.
the Ballade of happy people, one of successes of the singer Gerard Lenorman.
Ballade for Adeline, partition for piano made famous for Richard Clayderman.
the Ballade of Willy Fog, song of Renaud, left in 1994.
the Ballade the Sad Coffee, Carson Mc Cullers
the ballade of the Horse Mallet, song interpreted by Tri Yann.
the ballade of the cases of 24, splendid very poetic song of Plume Latraverse.

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