Download or read book Ballads Without Words written by James Parakilas and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1992 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his four ballads for piano, Chopin stretched the capacity of instrumental music by asking it to convey, without words, the form and sense of a ballad, a challenge taken up by composers, who developed the orchestral ballad.