ballade

基本解释

Ballade: Tema con variazioni ("Angoli Borbála") 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs for piano No. 6
叙事曲：主题变奏，为钢琴而作的15首匈牙利乡村歌曲，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.
他发明了器乐叙事曲的音乐形式，并对钢琴奏鸣曲、玛祖卡舞曲、华尔兹舞曲、小夜曲、波兰舞曲等乐曲做了较大改革。
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.
他发明了一些音乐形式，比如：叙事曲，但他最具重要性的创新却是在当时已有的音乐形式上，如：钢琴奏鸣曲、圆舞曲、夜曲、练习曲、即兴曲和前奏曲。
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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