Frye wrote masses, motets and songs, including ballades and a single rondeau. Out of the four ballades, the third "Ballade" has the tightest structure. In the nineteenth century, Robert Schumann and Carl Loewe also composed ballades. Guillaume de Machaut wrote 42 ballades set to music. A piano-music composition of his is featured in Tammy Lum's CD "Ballades & Ballads" (2015). Brahms's ballades often relied on a three-part song form. One of his ballades quotes Jehan Vaillant, a composer active in Paris. No. 29, the , and two Brahms "Ballades" and Robert Schumann's "Kreisleriana". Ballades sometimes alluded to their literary predecessors. Of these, only the ballades and the trio were published. The four "ballades" are said to have been inspired by poet Adam Mickiewicz. Besides sharing the title, the four "ballades" are entities distinct from each other. With Guillebert de Lannoy he also composed a series of ballades. His lyric output comprises 79 poems (11 ballades, 16 virelais, 52 rondeaux). Brief public dances are known as "ballades".