What is the meaning of Ballade?

Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.

A poem of one or more triplets of seven- or eight-line stanzas, each ending with the same line as refrain, and usually an envoi; more generally, any poem in stanzas of equal length.

ballad (narrative poem)

mischief, hijinks

trouble, unrest

ballad (slow romantic song)

ballad

ballade (lyric poem)

ballad

Source: wiktionary.org