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Ballad
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". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of the British Isles from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa.
Many ballads were written and sold as single sheet broadsides. The form was often used by poets and composers from the 18th century onwards to produce lyrical ballads. In the later 19th century the term took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and is now often used for any love song, particularly the pop or rock sentimental ballad.
==Origins==
The ballad derives its name from medieval French dance songs or "ballares" (L: ''ballare'', to dance),〔W. Apel, ''Harvard Dictionary of Music'' (Harvard, 1944; 2nd edn., 1972), p. 70.〕 from which 'ballet' is also derived, as did the alternative rival form that became the French ballade.〔A. Jacobs, ''A Short History of Western Music'' (1972, Penguin, 1976), p. 21.〕〔W. Apel, ''Harvard Dictionary of Music'' (1944, Harvard, 1972), pp. 70-72.〕 As a narrative song, their theme and function may originate from Scandinavian and Germanic traditions of storytelling that can be seen in poems such as Beowulf.〔J. E. Housman, ''British Popular Ballads'' (1952, London: Ayer Publishing, 1969), p. 15.〕 Musically they were influenced by the Minnesinger.〔A. Jacobs, ''A Short History of Western Music'' (Penguin 1972, 1976), p. 20.〕 The earliest example of a recognisable ballad in form in England is "Judas" in a 13th-century manuscript.〔A. N. Bold, ''The Ballad'' (Routledge, 1979), p. 5.〕
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