ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BALLAD
From Old French balade, from Old Provençal balada song accompanying a dance, from balar to dance, from Late Latin ballāre.
10 QUOTES WITH «BALLAD»
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ballad.
I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.
I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.
So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad.
When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me.
But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.
Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.
A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss.
Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,' he said, 'and you should be able to hold their attention.'
I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
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.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BALLAD»
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ballad in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ballad and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie
When music prodigy James Morgan and his best friend, Deirdre, join a private conservatory for musicians, his talent attracts Nuala, a faerie muse who fosters and feeds on creative energies, but soon he finds himself battling the Queen of ...
2
The
Ballad of the Sad Café
A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers's best stories, including her beloved novella "The Ballad of the Sad Café.
3
The
Ballad of Valentine
An ardent suitor tries various means of communication, from smoke signals to Morse code to skywriting, in order to get his message to his Valentine, in a hilarious Valentine's Day tale set to the tune of the folksong, Clementine. Reprint.
Alison Jackson, Tricia Tusa,
2006
4
The
Ballad of Lucy Whipple
In 1849 a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town.
5
The
Ballad of Rocky Ruiz
Chicano detectvie Luis Montez takes on his first case.
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"With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border
Ballad and Its Hero
" Américo Paredes tells the story of Cortez, the man and the legend, in vivid, fascinating detail in "With His Pistol in His Hand," which also presents a unique study of a ballad in the making.
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The American Popular
Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950
In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley.
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A
Ballad of the Civil War
A Brother's War Tom Rigby didn't think that anything could ever come between him and his twin, Jack.
9
Ballad of Another Time: A Novel
A tale of love and honor in which Rosendo Arbona discovers that his young wife Dominga is missing.
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The
Ballad of Peckham Rye
The Ballad of Peckham Rye presents Dame Muriel Spark at her most devilishly piquant.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BALLAD»
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ballad is used in the context of the following news items.
Protest Ballad Against Confederate Flag Catches On
Lawmakers in South Carolina next week will debate whether to remove the confederate flag from the State House grounds. One of efforts to ... «New England Public Radio, Jul 15»
Robin Thicke Returns With Soul Ballad 'Morning Sun'
The orchestral soul ballad is the kick-off single for his upcoming eighth album of the same name. On the breezy tune, Thicke affectionately sings ... «The BoomBox, Jul 15»
BTOB Top Real Time Charts With Ballad Track 'It's Okay'
Eunwang also showed confidence by stating, "We have our unique color. Our ballad track makes us different from others. I think it works to our ... «KpopStarz, Jul 15»
The Ballad Of Harvey Bullock And Renee Montoya
In today's Detective Comics #2, we get a meeting of minds with our two favourite detective Harvey Bullock and Renee Montoya, courtesy of ... «Bleeding Cool News, Jul 15»
The Ballad of “Difficult Women”: “Amy” and “What Happened Miss …
Toward the end of “Amy,” a new documentary about the singer Amy Winehouse in theaters July 2, we witness what many people in her life ... «BLOUIN ARTINFO, Jul 15»
David Polka Processes a Life-Altering Accident in 'Ballad of the …
For his solo show at Betti Ono Gallery, the artist reflected on a dark period in his life and emerged with some of his most compelling work yet. «East Bay Express, Jun 15»
Watch Justice Scalia's angry ObamaCare, gay marriage dissents …
... the band takes some of the more poetic parts of Scalia's dissents on gay marriage and the Affordable Care Act and spin them into a ballad for ... «The Week Magazine, Jun 15»
Frances Kennedy sings sarcastic ballad about Ryanair's fees in a …
After cracking a joke about passengers one day paying less to stand in the aisles, she closed the ballad by singing: 'After hours of the hard sell ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
Tiffany Evans Teams Up With Fetty Wap on the Playful Ballad 'On …
After releasing the video for “Baby Don't Go,” earlier this year, it seems like Tiffany Evans has been gone for a minute. But the New York singer ... «The BoomBox, Jun 15»
"Ballad" explores Dust Bowl Era
The Dust Bowl Era will be explored by one of the early outreach events in Bone Creek Museum's newest exhibition entitled Ballad of the Farm: ... «Columbus Telegram, Jun 15»