0 a song or poem that tells a story, or (in popular music) a slow love song
1 a song or poem that tells a story, or a slow love song
Few boys, I suppose, have not read with breathless emotion this most stirring of ballads: few men can read it without a thrill.
It was a voice new to her, and the words of his ballad were also new.
It, as well as many of the ballad tunes in this collection, was written from Mrs. Burns's voice.
The ballad of The Douglas Tragedy is one of the few, to which popular tradition has ascribed complete locality.
The following popular ballad will afford the reader a characteristic specimen of the whole tenderness of such a Russian parting scene.
He counts on the superior influence of lyrical ballads.
A broadside ballad relied not on sheet music but on common knowledge of a tune (it was indicated only by name).
In other words, the third act has a ballad simply because all operas have ballads.
