PPT-Story and Song: The Ballad

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 . 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. 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. late. . Mabbie. b. y . Gwendolyn Brooks. The Author. Gwendolyn Brooks is . an African American. poet who was born on . June 7, 1917 and died . December 3, 2000. . She wrote abo. u. t the culture and world she knew: growing up black and poor in a prejudice, racist world. Her poems vary in genre and are colorful and powerful. . All about Carly Rae . Jepsen. . Melani. Salinas. Who?. Carly Rae . Jepsen. she was born . November 21, . 1985. Carly . is a Canadian . recording artist and singer-songwriter from Mission, British Columbia.. 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. ~ LXX. SONG OF SONGS. v. 1 forms the title on Vulgate and Catholic Bible. . Canticles. . ~ Latin for . song. He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five.. SONG OF SONGS. La gamme de thé MORPHEE vise toute générations recherchant le sommeil paisible tant désiré et non procuré par tout types de médicaments. Essentiellement composé de feuille de morphine, ce thé vous assurera d’un rétablissement digne d’un voyage sur . 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.. ballad. genre.. Students can identify rhyme patterns, point of view, and count meter.. Students can write a narrative song with beginning, middle, end; characters, setting, conflict, climax and resolution.. Lover. . (by Taylor Swift). We could leave the Christmas lights up 'til January. This is our place, we make the rules. And there's a dazzling haze, a mysterious way about you, dear . Have I known you twenty seconds or twenty years?. Platten. . Presentation By: Jayna Bettesworth. Video with lyrics. Fight song . What Do you Picture when listening to this song? Why?. When I Listen to the song, I think of a girl standing on top of a boat in the ocean with wind blowing through her hair. The lyrics I picture are in the first stanza, “Like a small boat, on the ocean, Sending big waves into motion.” These lyrics easily paint a picture in my mind of a little boat, surrounded by an endless sea. .