PPT-Ballad

A poem written to tell a story often about a major event The Ballad Of The Turkey G Yates Published on February 2006 As I walked along the road one day Kicking up stones along the way I saw a bird of unusual size. The ballad stanza is simple to illustrate and recognize and not very hard to describe In its most familiar version the ballad stanza is four lines of alternating fourbeat tetrameter and threebeat trimeter verse with Y W Y Z Island written out here Ballad Maj 11 sus sus Maj Maj 11 Charles Mingus Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Why did people sing ballads?. A ballad is a form of verse to be sung or recited. It’s usually a dramatic episode in simple narrative form. . Most of the English and Scottish ballads are from the 14. ”. Robert W. Service. YOU NEED NOTEBOOKS. Page 637. Type of Poem: Ballad. A song or songlike poem that tells a story.. Usually about lost love, betrayal or death.. Sometimes have supernatural events.. Poetry of the People. Word “ballad” is an Old French term meaning “dancing song”. Subjects of ballads were predictable and sensational. Domestic tragedy, false love, true love, the absurdity of husband-wife relationships, the supernatural. A BALLAD IN MIDDLE ENGLISH. Ballad. a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. .. Middle English ballads were meant to be sung…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Eto6DU_2oI. Ballad. A typical ballad consists of stanzas that contain a quatrain or four poetical lines. . XIII – XV CENTURIES. Anonymous oral form. which appears in the . late Middle Ages. throughout . Europe.. The . oral mode. makes the . sound aspect. very . important. for the ballad singer because:. XIII – XV CENTURIES. Anonymous oral form. which appears in the . late Middle Ages. throughout . Europe.. The . oral mode. makes the . sound aspect. very . important. for the ballad singer because:. Learning . Objectives. To learn what Ballads are.. To create our Ballads.. In your exercise copy, summarise a story. . D. escribe. any story in three. to six lines. It can be a fairytale, a movie, T.V. Show, book or any tale.. Rhymed verse that is recited or sung, out of local stories and tall tales. During the Middle Ages, balladeers often resembled journalists; ballads often recounted actual events.. Murderous acts and desire for revenge. THE DRUG BALLAD MUSIC FROM THE BORDER1Maria del Carmen de la Peza To achieve this aim let me begin by exploring on the main characteristics of a ballad in order to compare a ballad with a drug ballad As it was developed at an early stage in Man’s cultural evolution, its themes are actions rather than thoughts. . They are of the simplest kind, such as a memorable feud, a thrilling adventure, a family disaster, love and war. The tale is usually fierce and tragic. . A ballad is a form of verse to be sung or recited. It’s usually a dramatic episode in simple narrative form. . Most of the English and Scottish ballads are from the 14. th. and 15. th. centuries.. By Sam Adams. Jim Croce: . Operator. (Folk Rock). What was studied?. Why is it important?. What is my connection?. Ballads: Modern Definition. Tells a story.. Tends to be cultural or regional.. Follows a quatrain style of alternate rhyming lines. .