ballade
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A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
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A 1935 play by the Czech authors Jan Werich and Jiří Voskovec called Balada z hadrů ("Ballade from rags") was inspired by Villon's work and adapted some of his poems as lyrics for a number of songs.
Henny recorded his first Dutch-language solo-album (Geen Ballade; released in March 1984) with a little help from his friends.
He learned music just for me -- the Chopin Ballade he played at St. Elizabeth's at one of the signings, and the Appasionata by Beethoven.
In Richard Strauss opera Der Rosenkavalier, (libretto by Hugo von Hofmanssthal) at the end of Act I the Marschallin sings: "such' dir den Schnee vom vergangenen Jahr", an allusion to the refrain from the Ballade des dames du temps jadis.
The French singer-songwriter Georges Brassens has a song called "Ballade des dames du temps jadis", where he puts Villon's poem into music.
The British modern jazz group, the Don Rendell - Ian Carr Quintet, included a track "Les Neiges d'Antan" on their album Phase III (1967) The French singer-songwriter Léo Ferré put Ballade des pendus to music in his album La Violence et l'Ennui (1980).