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In 19th century romantic music, a piano ballad is a piece for solo piano written in a balletic narrative style, often with lyrical elements interspersed. This type of work made its first appearance with Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G minor, op. 23 of 1836, closely followed by the ballad included in Clara Schumann's ''Soirées musicales'' Op.6 published in the same year. ==Form== The form of the ballad varied due to its independence from the formal compositional structures existing at the time. Ballads have often been characterized as "narrative" in style- "() parts () succeed one another in a determined order...their succession is governed by the relationships of causing and resulting by necessity or probability."〔Berger, Karol, "The Form of Chopin's ''Ballade'', Op. 23". ''19th-Century Music'', Vol. 20, No. 1 (1996). p. 46〕 The ballad of this time varied. In Chopin, for example, the common element throughout his ballads was the meter, commonly 6/8 time, and was based on thematic metamorphosis more than formal structures present at that time. Brahms' ballad, on the other hand, was clearer in form, and often relied on a three-part song form.〔Brown, Maurice J.E. "Ballade (ii)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd Ed. 2001.〕 Ballads sometimes alluded to their literary predecessors. Some had obvious or supposed literary associations. For example, the ballads of Chopin could be evidence of such association — these four works of Chopin were supposedly inspired by the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz, who was a friend of Chopin. However, no such evidence directly from the composer exists. There was in fact not a concrete association to literature until Brahms debuted his four ballads (op. 10), which bear the title "After the Scottish ballad 'Edward' ".〔 Piano ballads have been written since the 19th century; several have been composed in the 20th century (see below). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Piano ballad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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