Ballad

Ballad

Natalia Aquino
Analaura Gutierrez
6to SH
It is defined as, narrative folk song based on the most dramatic part of a story, built through a series of dialogues and actions. In a technical sense while larger, is a short narrative poem, sung at rallies or simple people. The word ballad was first used in a general sense to denote a short and simple poem, sung or not, that could have anarrative or lyric, cruel or kind, sentimental or satirical, religious or secular, vaguely associated with dance . In the twentieth century popular music has become synonymous with slow love song. However, in folklore, the term applies specifically ballad type of song popular narrative described above. These songs represent a type of literature and music that evolved throughout Europe during theMiddle Ages. Unlike romances and rhymed medieval tales, ballads tend to tighten a dramatic structure that sometimes omits all preliminary material, all disclosure and description and even all motivation to attend to the central scene. It is also true that the ballad presented only the last act of a play, letting the listener or reader to complete the preceding material. When he was born, it was anew form of art and literature, unlike any other form of expression above.

With a portfolio that ranges from the narrative fully character songs almost exclusively lyrical ballads from different countries and eras recorded a variety nay, within the variants of each particular type of ballad large structural differences may exist. Furthermore, as transmitted by oral tradition, every ballad issubject to continuous change. Generally, the closer you are to the scholarly literature, contains more detail; oral tradition tends to rule out non-essential elements. And it is also called a musical form born in the last period of the Middle Ages, whose name comes from being a melody for "singing dancing". Then adopted the form of a rondo, with the repetition of a refrain in the lyrics and in music.Declined to moved by the song and the beginning of the nineteenth century is regarded only as an instrumental: Turn around a recurring theme, but with more freedom than in rondo form

Melodies of Balladas
The ballads are composed for singing. While at times have been compiled into books of songs and poems are often studied, are often interpreted (with or without instrumental accompaniment) athome, at dusk, at work, next to the crib, or in any other everyday situation. The melodies of the ballads influence the compass, accents, style and, above all, in a sense. Although the melodies are independent of the texts, often have relationship. A particular tune can always be accompanied by a particular text but can also occur to separate. Some examples show that are related to a series ofballads (as well as hymns and poems of love), while its variants form what terminology melodic folk music called families.

Origins
In aesthetic sense, the ballad is considered the foremost art form developed by beautiful folk traditions of the world. Although the place and time of occurrence are unknown, what is known is that the ballad is relatively recent. Do not confuse the ballad with itsequivalent, the epic lai (a medieval form of narrative poetry, often with romantic themes or magical) which led to the first subject matter experts to believe that the ballad had survived from ancient times, even formulating a theory, now discredited, of common ancestry, according to which the ballads were produced by groups of people in response to some kind of recent development in the communityin which they lived. Compared with the lai epic ballad tends to be more domestic nationalist or fabulous, simple rather than rhetoric or refined language and organized into stanzas and rhymes. However both have overlapped and confused, especially in parts of Russia and Eastern Europe, so it is not always easy to distinguish between the two genres.
The ballad poetry
The ballads of the British...