Ballad
noun
A song that tells a story.
He composed a beautiful ballad about love and loss.
Often appears as...
- sing a ballad
- compose a ballad
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Musical,Literary
noun
A slow song that is full of emotion, often about love or sadness.
The band's latest album includes several ballads about heartbreak.
Often appears as...
- romantic ballad
- sad ballad
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Musical,General
noun
A poem or song that tells a story in short stanzas and simple words, often with repetition, refrain etc.
The oldest known ballad is 'The Ballad of Judas Iscariot'.
Often appears as...
- epic ballad
- traditional ballad
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Literary,Poetic
noun
A song that tells a story.
He composed a beautiful ballad about love and loss.
Often appears as...
- sing a ballad
- compose a ballad
Usage tips
Musical,Literary
noun
A slow song that is full of emotion, often about love or sadness.
The band's latest album includes several ballads about heartbreak.
Often appears as...
- romantic ballad
- sad ballad
Usage tips
Musical,General
noun
A poem or song that tells a story in short stanzas and simple words, often with repetition, refrain etc.
The oldest known ballad is 'The Ballad of Judas Iscariot'.
Often appears as...
- epic ballad
- traditional ballad
Usage tips
Literary,Poetic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Storytelling Song
Ballads often recount events or tales, sometimes based on historical or mythical themes.
The ballad 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' recounts a real shipwreck.
Pro Tip 2/3Musical Structure
Musical ballads usually have a simple melody and chorus that make them memorable.
The ballad 'Hallelujah' has a chorus that many people find easy to sing along to.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Connection
Ballads can evoke strong feelings and are often used to express deep emotions in music.
The ballad 'Let It Be' provides comfort to those facing tough times.
Pro Tip 1/3Storytelling Song
Ballads often recount events or tales, sometimes based on historical or mythical themes.
The ballad 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' recounts a real shipwreck.
Pro Tip 2/3Musical Structure
Musical ballads usually have a simple melody and chorus that make them memorable.
The ballad 'Hallelujah' has a chorus that many people find easy to sing along to.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Connection
Ballads can evoke strong feelings and are often used to express deep emotions in music.
The ballad 'Let It Be' provides comfort to those facing tough times.
Pro Tip 1/3Storytelling Song
Ballads often recount events or tales, sometimes based on historical or mythical themes.
The ballad 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' recounts a real shipwreck.
Pro Tip 2/3Musical Structure
Musical ballads usually have a simple melody and chorus that make them memorable.
The ballad 'Hallelujah' has a chorus that many people find easy to sing along to.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Connection
Ballads can evoke strong feelings and are often used to express deep emotions in music.
The ballad 'Let It Be' provides comfort to those facing tough times.
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Karen Eber: How your...
Stanford has done research on one of the best ways to shape organizational culture, and it is storytelling, because it's going to demonstrate what you value and encourage or what you don't value and what you discourage. As you start to write your power ballad, most people want to start with the data.
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The Birthplace of...
they had the new electronic microphone as recording equipment gets smaller there is the ability then to go out into those areas where the musicians actually are from in order to get new material what this region has musically is a fusion of English ballads and you know
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DIY - The Color Game PIPE...
percent of the respondents were asked to judge this what about the second piece a little bit slower in a minor key the majority of respondents actually picked blue what about the third slightly weird rock ballad what came up for you there if it was red then you're
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How architecture helped...
ended up in what is probably, acoustically, the worst sounding venues on the sports stadiums, basketball arenas and hockey arenas. Musicians who ended up there did the best they could. They wrote what is now called arena rock, which is medium-speed ballads.
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Michael Tilson Thomas:...
And every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive. Now the raw material of it, of course, is just the music of everyday life. It's all the anthems and dance crazes and ballads and marches.
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Why nations should...
Indeed, what worries me is the entire notion of world leadership seems to me terribly archaic. It's redolent of James Bond movies and Kipling ballads. After all, what constitutes a world leader? If it's population, we're on course to top the charts.
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Music and emotion...
material of it of course is just the music of everyday life it's all the anthems and dance crazes and ballads and marches but what classical music does is to distill all of these musics down to condense them to their absolute essence
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"All the World's a...
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation
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How architecture helped...
stadiums basketball arenas and hockey arenas musicians that who ended up there did the best they could they wrote what is now called arena rock which is medium speed ballads
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How sampling transformed...
Mark This is my favorite part. You gotta have doorstops. That's important. We all love music a great deal. Anthems, dance crazes, ballads and marches.
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Karen Eber: How your...
Stanford has done research on one of the best ways to shape organizational culture, and it is storytelling, because it's going to demonstrate what you value and encourage or what you don't value and what you discourage. As you start to write your power ballad, most people want to start with the data.
Video examples
The Birthplace of...
they had the new electronic microphone as recording equipment gets smaller there is the ability then to go out into those areas where the musicians actually are from in order to get new material what this region has musically is a fusion of English ballads and you know
Video examples
DIY - The Color Game PIPE...
percent of the respondents were asked to judge this what about the second piece a little bit slower in a minor key the majority of respondents actually picked blue what about the third slightly weird rock ballad what came up for you there if it was red then you're
Video examples
How architecture helped...
ended up in what is probably, acoustically, the worst sounding venues on the sports stadiums, basketball arenas and hockey arenas. Musicians who ended up there did the best they could. They wrote what is now called arena rock, which is medium-speed ballads.
Video examples
Michael Tilson Thomas:...
And every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive. Now the raw material of it, of course, is just the music of everyday life. It's all the anthems and dance crazes and ballads and marches.
Video examples
Why nations should...
Indeed, what worries me is the entire notion of world leadership seems to me terribly archaic. It's redolent of James Bond movies and Kipling ballads. After all, what constitutes a world leader? If it's population, we're on course to top the charts.
Video examples
Music and emotion...
material of it of course is just the music of everyday life it's all the anthems and dance crazes and ballads and marches but what classical music does is to distill all of these musics down to condense them to their absolute essence
Video examples
"All the World's a...
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation
Video examples
How architecture helped...
stadiums basketball arenas and hockey arenas musicians that who ended up there did the best they could they wrote what is now called arena rock which is medium speed ballads
Video examples
How sampling transformed...
Mark This is my favorite part. You gotta have doorstops. That's important. We all love music a great deal. Anthems, dance crazes, ballads and marches.
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Maria Konnikova
American Writer
Storytelling is the oldest form of entertainment there is. From campfires and pictograms - the Lascaux cave paintings may be as much as twenty thousand years old - to tribal songs and epic ballads passed down from generation to generation, it is one of the most fundamental ways humans have of making sense of the world.
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Willie Nelson
American Musician
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.
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Millie Bobby Brown
English Actress
I started singing before I started talking. And that's the God's honest truth. I think it was something that I've always loved to do, even if I wasn't good at it. I just loved ballads.
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Douglas MacArthur
American General
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
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Laura Bell Bundy
American Actress
I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
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Olly Murs
English Musician
I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy.
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Bob Dylan
American Musician
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
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Lee Tae-min
South Korean Musician
We have dance songs and ballad songs, but Baekhyun's voice plays a very important role. That's a really important speciality of Baekhyun.
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Tulisa
English Musician
I think it's important for every artist to have that ballad that stands the test of time.
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Eric Carmen
American Musician
I always wrote ballads, and I always wrote rockers.
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Maria Konnikova
American Writer
Storytelling is the oldest form of entertainment there is. From campfires and pictograms - the Lascaux cave paintings may be as much as twenty thousand years old - to tribal songs and epic ballads passed down from generation to generation, it is one of the most fundamental ways humans have of making sense of the world.
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Willie Nelson
American Musician
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.
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Millie Bobby Brown
English Actress
I started singing before I started talking. And that's the God's honest truth. I think it was something that I've always loved to do, even if I wasn't good at it. I just loved ballads.
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Douglas MacArthur
American General
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
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Laura Bell Bundy
American Actress
I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
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Olly Murs
English Musician
I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy.
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Bob Dylan
American Musician
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
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Lee Tae-min
South Korean Musician
We have dance songs and ballad songs, but Baekhyun's voice plays a very important role. That's a really important speciality of Baekhyun.
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Tulisa
English Musician
I think it's important for every artist to have that ballad that stands the test of time.
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Eric Carmen
American Musician
I always wrote ballads, and I always wrote rockers.
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