what are the components of ballad music?

Question

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Answer 1

A ballad is a story in song, usually a narrative song or poem. It is a rhythmic saga of a past affair, which may be heroic, romantic or satirical, almost inevitably catastrophic, which is related in the third person, usually with foreshortened alternating four- and three-stress lines ('ballad meter') and simple repeating rhymes, and often with a refrain. (Ballads should not be confused with the ballade, a 14th and 15th century French verse form.)

Answer 2

A ballad is a song that tells a story, so it would have the same components as a written story - introduction of the characters and situation, description of events and (usually) some kind of conflict, resolution of the conflict and its consequences. Ballads can be short or very long.

Examples:
* The Iliad and the Odyssey (both were meant to be sung)
* intro to "Gilligan's Island" (yes, it actually qualifies as a ballad)
* "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"

Answer 3

A Ballad is a poem to sing, having strong musical qualities like rhyme, rhythm and meter. Its a poetic form popular in the time of Romantic Period with the publicatiob Lyrical Ballads by S.T. Coleridge and William Wordsworth. The subject matter can be anything but particularly, love, passion. romance or nature are dominant.

Answer 4

It depends, I studied at least a dozen variations at GuildHall London.

The "basic" form for pop-ballad for example, would be:

Strings/Guitar, (usually electro-acoustic).
Vocals, (usually within the Soprano-Alto/Tenor range).
Second Strings/Guitar, (usually acoustic), or keyboard/piano.
Percussion, (usually soft drums/brush kit).

The variations are generally based around this "core".

Ballad music is mostly in a 4/4 time signature, in a major key such as C, (though the relative minor of some are used; such as A minor, [to work out the minor, drop a minor 3rd from the root of the major], the tempo will also be at a walking pace of around 100-120 quarter beats per minute, though it can go either side.

Since ballads are such a broad variety when it comes to music, I'm afraid it's not possible to answer your question more fully, but hopefully the information I've listed should be sufficient for you to be able to study it further.