ballads

Medieval literature, for instance, including the popular ballads, is full of an almost Georgian enthusiasm for Nature, and the art of agricultural peoples such as the Chinese and Japanese centres always round trees, birds, flowers, rivers, mountains.

george orwell | some thoughts on the common toad « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

Before writing about a Russo-centric novel or memoir, I plunge into my playlist, “Dusha” Russian Soul, which contains a dizzying mixture of sonorous ballads from the Slavic past and pop songs from the post-Soviet present.

Living With Music: A Playlist by Liesl Schillinger - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

Gilbert and Sullivan has many examples, but also, as Steve mentions, this happens in ballads — (such as, well, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.”)

Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Before writing about a Russo-centric novel or memoir, I plunge into my playlist, “Dusha” Russian Soul, which contains a dizzying mixture of sonorous ballads from the Slavic past and pop songs from the post-Soviet present.

Living With Music: A Playlist by Liesl Schillinger - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

Hamza specializes in ballads, and his diction may be the best I've heard from a male singer since Sinatra.

The Singing Epidemic 2006

Hamza specializes in ballads, and his diction may be the best I've heard from a male singer since Sinatra.

The Singing Epidemic 2006

Two ballads from the show have had a life outside it, "I Like Him" and "She Touched Me" (usually heard as "He Touched Me"), but I also like "Deep in Your Heart," which is a good example of the way a seemingly generic pop song can have its own function within a show.

Obscure Musical of the Week: DRAT! THE CAT! Jaime J. Weinman 2004

A great number of manuscripts contain Icelandic ballads, poetry or epigrams.

languagehat.com: SAGANET. 2004

Certain Danish ballads exhibit this peculiarity, but I cannot find any Danish counterpart to the ballad in Prior's three volumes.

Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various

Her history had never got beyond Edward the Fourth on account of having to go back to 1066 on account of new girls, and she had only heard of Prince Charlie in ballads and story books.

The House of Arden Edith 1923