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Elegy vs Ballade - What's the difference?

elegy | ballade |

As nouns the difference between elegy and ballade

is that elegy is a mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation while ballade is any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.

elegy

English

(wikipedia elegy)

Noun

(elegies)
  • A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.

    • Synonyms

    * dirge, threnody

    Coordinate terms

    * requiem – a piece of music played at a mass for the dead

    Derived terms

    * elegiac

    See also

    * eulogy – similar sounding funeral word

    Anagrams

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    References

    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 *