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.
The boundary ballads that were cited in this paper were still in use in the later nineteenth century.
As we have seen, through this singer-chorus relationship, the ballad works not only as a representation of heterosexual love but also of relationships between men.
At one level, political literature and popular ballads blamed defeat on poor strategic judgement and the administration's skewed continental priorities.
The government and local authorities cracked down on street singers and ballad singers singing and selling potentially subversive material.
Using the same principles that could make ballads seem like national scripture, he made the liberal state appear to be history's consecrated polity.
