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Definition of Folk ballad
1. Noun. A song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture.
Generic synonyms: Song, Vocal, Ethnic Music, Folk, Folk Music
Specialized synonyms: Blues, Fado
Lexicographical Neighbors of Folk Ballad
Literary usage of Folk ballad
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The folk-ballad, like the song or carol, belongs in some form to immemorial
antiquity. It is doubtless a mistake to suppose that any ballad has been ..."
2. An Introduction to the Study of Literature: For the Use of Secondary and by Edwin Herbert Lewis (1899)
"ADAM OF GORDON folk ballad It fell about the Martinmas, When the wind blew ...
Does not the folk ballad (see p. i) seem to differ, in this matter of the ..."
3. The Elson Readers.. by William Harris Elson (1921)
"NARRATIVES IN VERSE BONNIE GEORGE CAMPBELL folk ballad High upon Highlands, and
low upon Tay, Bonnie George Campbell rade out on a day. ..."
4. The Minstrelsy of England: A Collection of 200 English Songs with Their by Frank Kidson, Alfred Moffat (1901)
"A folk ballad taken from tho Rev. ... is wrongly placed with the words, for it
is the tune to the folk ballad, "Tho Summer Morning" (see Dixon's Songs of ..."
5. Outline History of English and American Literature by Charles Frederick Johnson (1900)
"But the folk-ballad belongs to a different class, and retains a perennial ...
The literary ballad and the original folk-ballad must be distinguished. ..."