please summarise the word ballad!?

Question

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Answer 1

a song that tells a tale

Answer 2

A folk song that tells a story, usually with a tragic ending. It can be about a lost love, a the death of a young person, a person dying for love, or a person being misused by the person they love (such as the English Ballad, "Mary Hamilton").
One of the classic last verses of many Appalachian ballads, after both members of the young couple have died (he in an accident of some kind, she of grief) and been buried side-by-side goes:
"And out of her heart grew a red, red rose
And out of his heart a briar
They climbed to the top of the old church wall
Till they could grow no higher."

Answer 3

Form of short narrative folk song.

Its distinctive style crystallized in Europe in the late Middle Ages as part of the oral tradition, and it has been preserved as a musical and literary form. The oral form has persisted as the folk ballad, and the written, literary ballad evolved from the oral tradition. The folk ballad typically tells a compact tale with deliberate starkness, using devices such as repetition to heighten effects. The modern literary ballad (e.g., those by W.H. Auden, Bertolt Brecht, and Elizabeth Bishop) recalls in its rhythmic and narrative elements the traditions of folk balladry.
Best,. Dave

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Answer 4

ballad is a story, usually a love story which is told in a poem or a song.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad

Answer 5

cheesey, slow, musically dereft, love song, released by bands struggling for a hit