ballata

It may help you to estimate how far lyrical verse has travelled from its origins if you will but remind yourselves that a sonnet and a sonata were once the same thing, and that a ballad meant a song accompanied by dancing—the word ballata having been specialised down, on the one line to the ballet, in which Mademoiselle Genée or the Russian performers will dance for our delight, using no words at all; on the other to Sir Patrick Spens or Clerk Saunders, ‘ballads’ to which no one in his senses would dream of pointing a toe.

III. On the Difference between Verse and Prose 1916

Corto Maltese : una ballata del mare alato /Roma : Lizard, 1998.

New Library Comics: Week of June 26, 2006 David S. Carter 2006

In brani come Gut Of The Quantifier si evidenzia la parentela del loro sound con gli esperimenti della scuola minimalista, in particolare quelli dei Sonic Youth; mentre in altri un tribalismo surreale (What You Need) o una ballata pastorale

FallNews - they grease the roads! *truckers' pin-up edition* 1999

Lat. _ballare_ (with _ballator_ as synonymous with _saltator_) to the Ital. _ballare_ and _ballata_, to the

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

Late that night Cino was in his chamber writing a _ballata_.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

He composed an elaborate canzone on the philosophy of love, in which poetry is smothered by metaphysics; but m his minor lyrics, original in motive and personal in sentiment, he brought the ballata and the sonnet to a degree of perfection previously unattained.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

The "Amorosa Visione", in praise of love, dates from about the year 1342, and consists of fifty cantos in terzine, and the initial letters of the verses form an acrostic of two sonnets and one ballata.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

By the middle of the century, in addition to the canzone, or ode (which was taken over from the Provençals), we find in Central Italy two forms of lyrical poetry purely Italian in their origin: the ballata and the sonnet.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

The ballad, the sonnet, have grown to stand on their merits as verse, though their names -- _ballata, sonata_ -- imply that they started in dependence upon dance and orchestra.

Poetry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

We are, moreover, justified in concluding from the character of the final chorus that it was a ballata or dance song and hence a frottola of the carnival song variety.

Some Forerunners of Italian Opera 1896