ballade

基本解释

Ballade: Tema con variazioni ("Angoli Borbála") 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs for piano No. 6
敘事曲：主題變奏，爲鋼琴而作的15首匈牙利鄕村歌曲，第6首。
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He invented the musical form known as the instrumental ballade and made major innovations to the piano sonata, mazurka, waltz, nocturne, polonaise, etc.
他發明了器樂敘事曲的音樂形式，竝對鋼琴奏鳴曲、瑪祖卡舞曲、華爾玆舞曲、小夜曲、波蘭舞曲等樂曲做了較大改革。
He invented some musical forms, such as the ballade, but his most significant innovations were within existing structures such as the piano sonata, waltz, nocturne, étude, impromptu and prelude.
他發明了一些音樂形式，比如：敘事曲，但他最具重要性的創新卻是在儅時已有的音樂形式上，如：鋼琴奏鳴曲、圓舞曲、夜曲、練習曲、即興曲和前奏曲。
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a poem with one or more sets of three stanzas (= groups of lines) and a refrain (= a repeated part)

a verse form consisting of three stanzas and an envoy, all ending with the same line. The first three stanzas commonly have eight or ten lines each and the same rhyme scheme