Entertainment / Music / Ballade: French poetic form and chanson type of the Middle Ages and Renaissance with courtly love texts. Also a Romantic genre, especially a lyric piano piece.
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Entertainment / Literature / Envoy: Also spelled, envoi, the word envoy refers to a postscript added to the end of a prose writing or a short verse stanza (often using different meter and rhyme) attached to the conclusion of a poem. An MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Chant Royale: A complex french form of the ballade, having various forms. MORE
Entertainment / Music / Fixed Forms: Group of forms, especially in medieval France, in which the poetic structure determines musical repetitions. See also ballade, rondeau, virelai. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Ballad: In common parlance, song hits, folk music, and folktales or any song that tells a story are loosely called ballads. In more exact literary terminology, a ballad is a narrative poem consisting of quatr MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Ubi Sunt Motif: A literary motif dealing with the transience of life. The name comes from a longer Latin phrase, 'Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerent?' [Where are those who were before us?], a phrase that begins several me MORE