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Sentimental ballads, sometimes called "tear-jerkers" or "drawing-room ballads", had their origins in the early "Tin Pan Alley" music industry of the later 19th century. They were generally sentimental, narrative, strophic songs published separately or as part of an opera, descendants perhaps of broadside ballads. As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of this genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards. Today, sentimental ballads are primarily known as pop ballads or power ballads, and they often deal with romantic and sexual relationships.〔Witmer. See also Middleton (I,4,i).〕 ==History== By the Victorian era, ''ballad'' had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called "royalty ballads". Some of Stephen Foster's songs exemplify this genre.〔Temperley (II,2).〕 By the 1920s, composers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway used ''ballad'' to signify a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form. Jazz musicians sometimes broaden the term still further to embrace all slow-tempo pieces. Notable historical ballads include, "Little Rosewood Casket" (1870), "After the Ball" (1892) and "Danny Boy" (1913).〔N. Cohen, ''Folk Music: a Regional Exploration'' (Greenwood, 2005), p. 297.〕 When the word ''ballad'' appears in the title of a song, as for example in The Beatles' "The Ballad of John and Yoko" or Billy Joel's "The Ballad of Billy the Kid", the folk music sense is generally implied. ''Ballad'' is also sometimes applied to strophic story-songs more generally, such as Don McLean's "American Pie".〔D. R. Adams, ''Rock 'n' roll and the Cleveland Connection Music of the Great Lakes'' (Kent State University Press, 2002), ISBN 0-87338-691-4, p. 70.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sentimental ballad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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