Ballades

Rops; I could rhyme "Ballades" when they were "in," and knew what a

Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

Rops; I could rhyme "Ballades" when they were "in," and knew what a

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

"Ballades" and the "Fantaisie" in F minor, reveal a fire, passion and virile power that will surprise those who have formed their estimate of Chopin from the mournful nocturnes and brilliant waltzes.

The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players Gustav Kobb�� 1887

But he follows that with an extended sequence of nocturnes and mazurkas, before returning to large-scale works with the last two of the Ballades, separated by more mazurkas and another nocturne.

Chopin: Ballades Nos 3 and 4; F minor Fantasy; Mazurkas; Nocturnes – review 2011

There are two further works three-part Ballades in the Chantilly Codex, however not headed with F.

Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

The works … belong to the most beautiful and complex Ballades of the repertoire.

Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

Having abstained from the absinthe and, as in one of his funnier Ballades, decided not to hang himself, GK was perhaps never more “Nineties” than when he followed in the footsteps of Lionel Johnson, John Gray and Oscar Wilde himself, into the arms of Rome.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

“Ballades” when they were “in,” and knew what a “pantoom” was ....

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Tom, delighted at an audience, would ramble through the “Poems and Ballades” until Kerry and Amory knew them almost as well as he.

This Side of Paradise 2003

In 1880 Mr Lang published a volume of _Ballades in Blue China_, which found innumerable imitators.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various