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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 ...
As a song, the ballad is a popular piece of Scottish folk music, and is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index as #21732. [10] Following John Clarke Whitfield 's publication of Twelve Vocal Pieces in 1816, Hogg offered him a number of pieces including the (then uncollected) Lariston for adaptation in a second volume, though it does not appear to ...
Label. Cadence. Composer (s) George Bruns. Lyricist (s) Thomas W. Blackburn. " The Ballad of Davy Crockett " is a song with music by George Bruns and lyrics by Thomas W. Blackburn. It was introduced on ABC 's television series Disneyland, in the premiere episode of October 27, 1954.
Folk. Published. 1792. (1792) " William Taylor " (Roud 158, Laws N11) is a British folk song, often collected from traditional singers in England, less so in Scotland, Ireland, Canada and the USA. It tells the story of a young woman who adopts male dress and becomes a sailor (or sometimes a soldier) in order to search for her lover.
Thirty-two-bar form. "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen/Harburg) exemplifies the 20th-century popular 32-bar song. [1] The 32- bar form, also known as the AABA song form, American popular song form and the ballad form, is a song structure commonly found in Tin Pan Alley songs and other American popular music, especially in the first half of the 20th ...
Ballads is a jazz album by John Coltrane released in January 1963 by Impulse! Records. [1] [2] It was recorded in December 1961 and 1962, and released with catalogue number A-32 (mono) and AS-32 (stereo). Critic Gene Lees stated that the quartet had never played the tunes before. "They arrived with music-store sheet music of the songs" and just ...
The Ballad of John and Yoko. " The Ballad of John and Yoko " is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a non-album single in May 1969, with "Old Brown Shoe" as its B-side. It was written by John Lennon [3] and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership, and chronicles the events surrounding the wedding of Lennon ...