[78-L] Art Tatum 100th birthday

[Cary Ginell]

That's Webster's definition. Others say the following:

 

"A narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain."

 

This was the definition I learned when studying Folklore in grad school. Guess it all depends on what you want to believe, but I think that it has been simplistically reduced to "any tune that is slow."

 

Cary Ginell

 


 
> From: saag at telia.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:43:32 +0200
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Art Tatum 100th birthday
> 
> Cary Ginell wrote:
> 
> > Actually the correct definition of "ballad" is a song that tells a story.
> --
> Depends on what part of history you look into.
> The word comes from Latin, ballare, which means "to dance" (as in ballet).
> From the 16th century it's applied to anything that could be sung in a 
> popular style and for solo voice. Be it songs that told a story or used a 
> poem.
> In the 19th century it was attached to simpler type of "drawing-room" songs 
> (shop ballads).
> Kristjan
> 
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