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ballad

noun as in narrative song

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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.

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

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

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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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