The term ballad can denote one of the following things:

• Ballad:

1. A form of narrative poetry, often put to song.

Terms relevant to this type of ballad are:

Ballad Meter: A meter commonly found in ballads.

Ballad Stanza: A form of stanza most often found in folk ballads.

Types of ballads in this respect:

Border ballad: A ballad on an incident at the English-Scottish border, e.g. The Ballad of Chevy Chase.

Cântec batrânesc: A Romanian form of ballad.

Examples of traditional ballads:

A List of Irish ballads

Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads collected by John Lomax

Ossianic Ballads collected by James Macpherson

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, an eighteenth century collection of ballads and popular songs collected by Thomas Percy

The Bagford Ballads / The Bagford Ballads, a mostly late 17th century volume of ballads collected by John Bagford

The Ballad of Grimnir

The Ballad of Mulan

The Child Ballads, a 19th century collection of ballads collected by Francis James Child

The Convict ballad

The Cowboy's Lament

The Elfin Knight, a Scottish ballad; American versions being My Father Had an Acre of Land, The Parsley Vine, The Shirt of Lace

Examples of modern ballads:

Bab Ballads by W. S. Gilbert

Barrack-Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling

Bon Gaultier Ballads by William Edmonstoune Aytoun and Theodore Martin

La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad by John Keats

Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Ballad of Eskimo Nell of unknown origin

The Ballad of Japing Jesus by Oliver St John Gogarty

The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

The Ballad of the "Clampherdown" by Rudyard Kipling

The Ballad of the Green Berets by Robin Moore and Barry Sadler

The Ballad of Father O'Hart, The Ballad of Moll ::: Magee & The Ballad of the Foxhunter by William Butler Yeats

2. A certain type of song, used in a broader sense.

Ballad opera: A light form of opera using traditional tunes, popular in the 18th century.

Blues ballad: A 32-bar piece of music written in the blues scale with blues chord progressions; cf. Torch song, Slow jam.

Broadside ballads: Paper broadsheets printed with lyrics and notations of popular songs, popular from the 16th century until the early 20th century.

Murder ballads: A genre of songs that relays the details (and often consequences) of crimes of passion.

Power ballad: A slow kind of rock song often on a sentimental theme and written by or for an arena rock band.

3. A work of fiction with a legendary theme, used in the broadest sense.

Examples in film:

Ballad of a Soldier by Grigori Chukhrai (1959)

Hussar Ballad by Eldar Ryazanov (1962)

The Ballad of Andy Crocker by Stuart Margolin (1969)

The Ballad of Cable Hogue by Sam Peckinpah (1970)

The Ballad of Jack and Rose by Rebecca Miller (2005)

The Ballad of Narayama by Keisuke Kinoshita (1958)

The Ballad of Bettie Page was a working title for The Notorious Bettie Page by Mary Harron (2005)

'Examples in literature:

The Ballad of Halo Jones, a comic-strip by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson

The Ballad of The Flexible Bullet, a novella by Stephen King

Highland Ballad, a novel by Christopher Leadem

Murder Ballads, a book of poetry by Jake Adam York

Salt-Water Ballads and Ballads, collected poetry by John Masefield

Examples in music:

Albums:

Ballads by Dexter Gordon (1961)

Ballads by John Coltrane (1962)

Ballad of Easy Rider by The Birds (1969)

The Ballad of Stuffed Trigger by The Residents (1970)

Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren by Todd Rundgren (1971)

The Beatles' Ballads by The Beatles (1980)

The Ballad of Sally Rose by Emmilous Harris (1985)

Bossas & Ballads - The Lost Sessions by Stan Getz (1990)

The album Ballads from the Jimmy Buffett box-set Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads (1992)

Murder Ballads by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1996)

Ballads for Benpadrone by IBOPA (1997)

Speed Ballads by Republica (1998)

Ballads by REO Speedwagon (1999)

Ballads by Mary J. Blige (2000)

The Ballad Hits by Roxette (2002)

A Ballads by Ayumi Hamasaki (2003)

Ballads of Living and Dying by Marissa Nadler (2004)

Front Parlour Ballads by Richard Thompson (2005)

Singles:

Ballad Of Kansas City by Burn the Priest

Ballad of Mechanical Man by Quasi

Ballad of a Thin Man by Bob Dylan

Ballad of Bodacious by Primus

The Ballad of Cactus Pete and Lefty by Ray Stevens

The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins by Charles R. Grean

The Ballad of Billy The Kid by Billy Joel

The Ballad of Charles Whitman by Kinky Friedman

The Ballad of Chasey Lain by Bloodhound Gang

The Ballad of Davy Crockett by Tom Blackburn and George Bruns

The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest by Bob Dylan

The Ballad of Jayne Cobb being sung in the "Jaynestown" episode of the television series Firefly

The Ballad of Jed Clampett by Paul Henning

The Ballad of John and Yoko by The Beatles

The Ballad of Thunder Road by Robert Mitchum

Hyper-Ballad by Björk

Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel

Sleeping Sun (Four Ballads of the Eclipse) by Nightwish

Ultraviolet/Ballad of Paul K by McFly

UNTITLED 4 ballads by Every Little Thing

• Ballade:
  • A verse form common in the 14th and 15th centuries.
  • The Ballade royal: A ballade which uses rhyme royal stanzas.

• Ballade (musical form):
  • A piece of medieval music, most often associated with Guillaume de Machaut.
  • A piece of romantic music, e.g. Ballades, Op. 10 (Brahms).

• The Honda Ballade: A compact car.

• Radio-ballad: A form of audio-documentary making use of modern ballads sometimes written for that specific purpose

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See also

• Balad
• Ballard

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