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ballad

/bal-uhd/US // ˈbæl əd //UK // (ˈbæləd) //

民谣,歌谣,谣曲,谣传

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody.
    • : a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing.
    • : any poem written in similar style.
    • : the music for a ballad.
    • : a sentimental or romantic popular song.

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Examples

  • Along with Emily Shackleton, they wrote the heartbreak ballad “Every Little Thing.”

  • R&B newcomer Joël caught my attention with his soul-stirring single “Clean Up,” a powerful ballad that examines both police brutality and the industrial-prison complex.

  • Then she started driving for the pleasure of it, humming along to power ballads on Christian radio and chatting on the phone with friends.

  • Because the ballad is so simple and elegant, we can see exactly what elements are important to the story at this early stage.

  • Gender roles here are not exactly as porous as they are in the original ballad.

  • This sultry ballad about break-ups and make-ups in the City of Angels is haunting stuff.

  • And it was a radical part of your tool set, throwing it into a ballad, which was also a canonized jazz standard.

  • There were no longer any chord changes, and it was no longer a ballad.

  • Toward the end, on the ballad “Someone Else,” she flies over the crowd while straddling a giant hot dog like Slim Pickens.

  • M10 has a musical ballad named after him that the band Los Sembradores de La Sierra recorded in 2011.

  • I asked him to tell me how he produced a certain effect he makes in his arrangement of the ballad in Wagner's Flying Dutchman.

  • One day her mother heard her singing a popular nautical ballad, on the devotion of a sailor's bride to her betrothed.

  • Mirèio contains one ballad and two lyrics in a measure differing from that of the rest of the poem.

  • The Scotch ballad is the spontaneous production of the touching and simple genius of the nation.

  • The same Ballad contains other imitations of Chaucer's language.