(n.) A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.
(v. i.) To make or sing ballads.
(v. t.) To make mention of in ballads.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Celtic fans still regularly belt out The Ballad of Willie Maley," writes Mark Sheffield.
(2) His father, who was fond of humming the popular ballad Keep Right on to the End of the Road, lost his job in the great depression of the early 1930s.
(3) The band wanted to talk about their adventurous musical policy more than their lyrics (they mix brassy banda styles with accordion-based norteno ballads) but agreed that narcocorrido was crucial for their success.
(4) On at least one occasion he was persuaded to pick up a gusle , the single-stringed fiddle of the region, and perform an epic Serb ballad under a framed portrait of himself at the height of his power.
(5) "I feel like I could bring out a ballad next or I could bring out a techno song.
(6) Leaving a Murdoch-dominated media landscape with shows where, each week, shrieking irradiated cannibals sing power ballads as they compete for the right to die?
(7) After The Ballad was published in 1986, I spent two years in my room.
(8) Instead, Miliband's choices were often full of personal meaning, such as Paul Robeson's rendition of leftwing anthem The Ballad of Joe Hill, which he selected in memory of his father Ralph.
(9) I popped in for a nightcap but end up staying for two hours, serenaded by locals murdering everything from Japanese power ballads to cheesy Brazilian pop and Bohemian Rhapsody.
(10) Polydor signed her in 2009 and she might easily have released a debut album of unadorned guitar ballads, the sort of stuff she'd been touring around London pubs and bars.
(11) Rock's lingua franca remains the post-Oasis, post-Radiohead big stadium ballad, replete with keep-your-chin-up lyrics, usually suggesting you "hold on".
(12) Yet one one of the most moving moments of the night came when the choir from Parrs Wood High School in south Manchester duetted with Grande on her ballad, My Everything .
(13) His dad had liked Paul Robeson, hence Ballad of Joe Hill; the South African national anthem reminded him of an inspiring South Africanhe had known who was murdered by the secret police.
(14) The norteño band Los Tigres del Norte cancelled a planned appearance at an awards ceremony at a government-owned auditorium in October after organisers allegedly asked them not to perform a drug ballad.
(15) Jon Morter, 35, a part-time rock DJ and logistics expert from South Woodham Ferrers, near Chelmsford, decided it would be a bit of a giggle to start a campaign to encourage people to buy a record with pretty much the opposite vibe to the X Factor winner's ballad.
(16) It also inspired a Johnny Cash hit, The Ballad of Ira Hayes, with lyrics touching on a bitter legacy that is the source of many of the reservation’s problems to this day: The water grew Ira’s people’s crops ’Til the white man stole the water rights And the sparklin’ water stopped.
(17) Despite the jail's grim exterior, the regime is fairly liberal and inmates earn extra cash by selling food, handicrafts - and drug ballads.
(18) The trailer is book-ended by Tyson quoting Oscar Wilde's The Ballad Of Reading Gaol: Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
(19) Official Charts Company data shows Noel Gallagher’s band High Flying Birds had both the best-selling vinyl single and album in the first three months of the year, with Ballad Of The Mighty I and Chasing Yesterday , respectively.
(20) After university in Cambridge, he toured revolutionary Europe and then set up home briefly in the West Country with his sister Dorothy, where he met Coleridge, his collaborator on their early popular volume, the Lyrical Ballads .
Song
Definition:
(n.) That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.
(n.) A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad.
(n.) More generally, any poetical strain; a poem.
(n.) Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
(n.) An object of derision; a laughingstock.
(n.) A trifle.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(2) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(3) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(4) Unilateral lesions of n. intercollicularis (previously implicated in the control of vocal behavior) had little effect on song.
(5) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(6) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
(7) Back then, before her life took a darker turn, Holiday was able to leave the song, and its politics, at the door on the way out.
(8) HVc and RA grow during the subsong and plastic song periods of song development.
(9) Furthermore, the homoeotic legs of SSa females are not required to be present for the detection of courtship song, since females whose homoeotic legs were removed could still distinguish between singing and non-singing males.
(10) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
(11) Mahler's Second Symphony - that song of love, renewal, and spiritual growth that Abbado has been singing for more than 40 years.
(12) They released a song on (the now banned) YouTube, called Alu Anday (Potatoes and Eggs) taking a swipe at the military as well as sectarian killers.
(13) As we walk away from the restaurant, he looks up an interview (with himself) on his iPhone and announces his musical credentials: "Yup, two Radiohead songs in both 'Clueless' and 'Romeo and Juliet', back when all anybody knew was 'Creep'.
(14) Alighting upon the final four songs recorded by Drake, he pressed play and began to make notes before setting about mixing them for this putative release.
(15) "Here's Munich's Philharmonic Orchestra composing and writing a song for F.C.
(16) These results are compatible with the idea that tamoxifen does not block the action of estradiol in the brain of zebra finches, and suggest that the effects of early tamoxifen treatment on the morphology of the song system may reflect central actions of tamoxifen.
(17) If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create a medical App,” they explain.
(18) Some artists get thousands of songs pitched and they never know, so Beyoncé herself probably never heard it.
(19) In mating test, hybrid males cout and are accepted by D. simulans females more than hybrid females (presumably because their song is more "acceptable" to the former).
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cream (1991) was Prince’s fifth US No 1 hit single His profile boosted by Sinéad O’Connor’s version of his song Nothing Compares 2 U, Prince embarked on another film and music project with Graffiti Bridge.