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  2. Ballade (classical music) - Wikipedia

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    Ballade (classical music) A ballade (/bəˈlɑːd/; French: [balad]; and Latin [ballare]: [bälˈlʲäːrɛ]) refers to a one- movement instrumental piece with lyrical and dramatic narrative qualities reminiscent of such a song setting, especially a piano ballade. In 19th century romantic music, a piano ballad (or 'ballade') is a genre of solo ...

  3. Ballad - Wikipedia

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    A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "dancing songs" (L: ballare, to dance), yet becoming "stylized forms of solo song" before being adopted in England. [1] As a narrative song, their theme and function may originate from ...

  4. Ballades (Chopin) - Wikipedia

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    Chopin used the term ballade in the sense of a balletic interlude or dance piece, equivalent to the old Italian ballata. However, the term may also have connotations of the medieval heroic ballad, a narrative minstrel song, often of a fantastical character. There are dramatic and dance-like elements in Chopin's use of the genre, and he is a ...

  5. Category:Pop ballads - Wikipedia

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    All I Want Is You (Carly Simon song) All in Love Is Fair. All Kinds of Everything. All My Loving. All of Me (John Legend song) All of You (Julio Iglesias and Diana Ross song) All That (song) All the Love in the World (The Corrs song) All the Man That I Need.

  6. Blues ballad - Wikipedia

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    From the late 19th century the term ballad began to be used for sentimental songs with their origins in the early ‘Tin Pan Alley’ music industry. [5] As new genres of music, including the blues, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality meant led to this being used as the term for a slow love song from the 1950s onward.

  7. List of Irish ballads - Wikipedia

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    The air is "The Girl I Left Behind". Translated by George Sigerson as "The Roving Worker" [18] "A Nation Once Again" – 19th-century Irish nationalist anthem by Thomas Davis. "Avenging and Bright" – patriotic song by Thomas Moore [19] "Down by the Glenside (The Bold Fenian Men)" – song by Peadar Kearney about the 19th-century Fenians.

  8. Category:Traditional ballads - Wikipedia

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    Scarborough Fair (ballad) Scots Wha Hae. The Sean-Bhean bhocht. Silu (song) Sitala Maju. Six Dukes Went a-Fishing. The Sprig of Thyme. Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation.

  9. List of the Child Ballads - Wikipedia

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    The ballad, though historically inaccurate, recounts the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last large-scale encounter between the Scottish and English armies. 173: Mary Hamilton: Mary Hamilton, servant to Queen of the Scots, Mary Stuart, has an affair with the king and becomes pregnant. Out of guilt, she casts her newborn into the sea.