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Ballade vs Ode - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between ballade and ode

is that ballade is (lb) any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements while ode is sister.

ballade

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
  • *
  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer languageunderstood 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.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1915, author=(Richard Le Gallienne), title= Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
    • , passage="Dead and gone!" as Andrew Lang re-echoes in a sweetly mournful ballade
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 30, author=Anthony Tommasini, title=A Patience to Listen, Alive and Well, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=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 *

    ode

    English

    (wikipedia ode)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
    • Ode on a Grecian Urn —Keats

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