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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 ...
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. [2] The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the ...
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.
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.
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 1/Chapter 26. "The Twa Corbies", illustration by Arthur Rackham for Some British Ballads. " The Three Ravens " (Roud 5, Child 26) is an English folk ballad, printed in the songbook Melismata[1] compiled by Thomas Ravenscroft and published in 1611, but the song is possibly older than that.
Get Up and Bar the Door. Illustration by Alexander George Fraser of Get Up and Bar the Door. Get Up and Bar the Door is a medieval Scots ballad about a battle of wills between a husband and wife. It is Child ballad 275 (Roud 115). According to Child, it was first published by David Herd.
Music video. "Bohemian Rhapsody" on YouTube. " Bohemian Rhapsody " is a song by the British rock band Queen, released as the lead single from their fourth studio album, A Night at the Opera (1975). Written by lead singer Freddie Mercury, the song is a six-minute suite, [ 4 ] notable for its lack of a refraining chorus and consisting of several ...