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  2. Roud Folk Song Index - Wikipedia

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    The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 [1] references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud. [2] Roud's Index is a combination of the Broadside Index (printed sources before 1900) and a "field-recording index" compiled by Roud.

  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. List of folk songs by Roud number - Wikipedia

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    The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the Child Ballads), but others have high ones. Some of the songs were also included in the collection Jacobite Reliques by Scottish poet and novelist ...

  5. The Beatles Ballads - Wikipedia

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    The Beatles Ballads is a compilation album featuring a selection of ballad songs by the English rock band the Beatles. The album was not released in the United States, but in Mexico, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Spain, India, Japan, South Korea and Australia. In Australia, the album was a big success, spending seven ...

  6. Purple Rain (song) - Wikipedia

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    The song is a power ballad that combines rock, R&B, gospel, and orchestral music. [1] "Purple Rain" reached number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 and stayed there for two weeks, being kept off the top spot by "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham!. It reached the summit in Belgium and the Netherlands.

  7. List of the Child Ballads - Wikipedia

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    The cast includes Little John, and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Covered are Robin's travels, his robberies, his relations with the king and his betrayal and death. 118. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisbourne. Little John and Robin argue, and John leaves in a huff, only to be captured by the Sheriff.

  8. Ballade (classical music) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Thirty-two-bar form - Wikipedia

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    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 ...