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ballad

noun as in narrative song

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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.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ballad, such as: chant, ditty, carol, and serenade.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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