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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 ...
A ballade (from French ballade, French pronunciation:, and German Ballade, German pronunciation: [baˈlaːdə], both being words for "ballad"), in classical music since the late 18th century, refers to a setting of a literary ballad, a narrative poem, in the musical tradition of the Lied, or to a one-movement instrumental piece with lyrical and dramatic narrative qualities reminiscent of such ...
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.
The oldest preserved Swedish broadside ballad, printed in 1583. A broadside (also known as a broadsheet) is a single sheet of inexpensive paper printed on one side, often with a ballad, rhyme, news and sometimes with woodcut illustrations. They were one of the most common forms of printed material between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries ...
Sport, play and fighting. " Bold Thady Quill " – a Cork song written about 1895 by Johnny Tom Gleeson (1853–1924) [ 101 ] "The Bold Christy Ring" – song about Cork hurler Christy Ring to the tune of Bold Thady Quill. "The Contender" – song by Jimmy Macarthy about 1930s Irish boxer Jack Doyle, recorded by Christy Moore.
Ballad stanza. In poetry, a ballad stanza is a type of a four- line stanza, known as a quatrain, most often found in the folk ballad. The ballad stanza consists of a total of four lines, with the first and third lines written in the iambic tetrameter and the second and fourth lines written in the iambic trimeter with a rhyme scheme of ABCB. [1 ...
Sentimental ballad. A sentimental ballad is an emotional style of music that often deals with romantic and intimate relationships, and to a lesser extent, loneliness, death, war, drug abuse, politics and religion, usually in a poignant but solemn manner. [1] Ballads are generally melodic enough to get the listener's attention.
The formes fixes were standard forms in French-texted song of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The ballade is usually in three stanzas, each ending with a refrain (a repeated segment of text and music). [1] The ballade as a verse form typically consists of three eight-line stanzas, each with a consistent metre and a particular rhyme scheme.