A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally...

A sentimental ballad is an emotional style of music that often deals with romantic and intimate relationships, and to a lesser extent, loneliness, death...

Murder ballads are a subgenre of the traditional ballad form dealing with a crime or a gruesome death. Their lyrics form a narrative describing the events...

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a dystopian action-adventure novel written by the American author Suzanne Collins. It is a prequel to the original...

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a 2018 American Western anthology film written, directed, produced, and edited by the Coen brothers. It stars Tim Blake...

Look up ballad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ballad is a form of narrative poetry, often put to music, or a type of sentimental love song in modern...

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a 2023 American dystopian action film directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Michael Lesslie...

Limonov: The Ballad is a 2024 film directed by Kirill Serebrennikov. It is based on Emmanuel Carrère's 2011 book Limonov, a novelized biography of the...

"The Ballad of John and Yoko" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a non-album single in May 1969, with "Old Brown Shoe"...

"The Ballad of Paladin" is a song written by Johnny Western, Richard Boone, and Sam Rolfe and performed by Duane Eddy. The song reached No. 10 on the UK...

In poetry, a ballad stanza is a type of a four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, most often found in the folk ballad. The ballad stanza consists of a...

"The Ballad of the Green Berets" is a 1966 patriotic song in the ballad style about the United States Army Special Forces. Written and performed by Staff...

The Ballad of Jack and Rose is a 2005 drama film written and directed by Rebecca Miller, and starring her husband Daniel Day-Lewis; it also stars Camilla...

The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second...

The Ballad of the Fallen is a jazz album by bassist Charlie Haden, with arrangements by Carla Bley, recorded in November 1982 and released on ECM October...

Look up balladeer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Balladeer or The Balladeer may refer to: Balladeer, a singer or reciter of ballads A Balladeer, a Dutch...

The ballad opera is a genre of English comic opera stage play that originated in the early 18th century, and continued to develop over the following century...

"Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl" (stylized in all lowercase) is a song by American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo from her second studio album, Guts (2023)...

The Ballad of Darren is the ninth studio album by English rock band Blur. It was released on 21 July 2023 by Parlophone and Warner Records. The album's...

"The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" is a song by American poet and songwriter Shel Silverstein. It was originally recorded in 1974 by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show...

The Ballad of Hugo Sánchez (or Club de Cuervos Presents: The Ballad of Hugo Sánchez; Spanish: La balada de Hugo Sánchez) is a Mexican comedy-drama television...

Best Ballads is a 1995 compilation album by Toto. It features many of the band's well known ballads. "A Secret Love" – (Bobby Kimball, David Paich, Steve...

Hode (Child Ballad 117) Robin Hood and the Monk (Child Ballad 119) Robin Hood and the Potter (Child Ballad 121) NB. The first two ballads listed here...

"The Ballad of Chevy Chase" is an English ballad, catalogued as Child Ballad 162 (Roud 223). There are two extant ballads under this title, both of which...

The radio ballad is an audio documentary format created by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, and Charles Parker in 1958. It combines four elements of sound:...

"The Ballad of Chasey Lain" is a song by American comedy rock band Bloodhound Gang. It was released in February 2000 as the third single from their third...

Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (Russian: Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго) is a 1983 Soviet adventure film, based on the 1819 novel Ivanhoe by...

A Ballad for Çanakkale (Çanakkale türküsü) is a Turkish folk song about the Battle of Gallipoli which occurred during World War I on the Gallipoli Peninsula...

Border ballads are a group of songs in the long tradition of balladry collected from the Anglo-Scottish border. Like all traditional ballads, they were...

Power Ballad is an upcoming musical comedy film directed and co-written by John Carney and starring Paul Rudd, Nick Jonas, Jack Reynor, Havana Rose Liu...