Ballade

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Male Vocal
El Triste: the 1970 performance that made José José a star

At Mexico City's II Festival de la Canción Latina in 1970, José José presented El Triste, a dramatic ballad by Mexican…

July 1, 2026
Orchestra
Greensleeves: the folk melody behind Vaughan Williams' Fantasia

Greensleeves is one of the best-known English folk melodies, first published in 1580 as a broadside ballad titled A…

May 24, 2022
Songwriter
Porque Te Vas: meaning behind Jeanette's song of departure

Porque Te Vas is the best-known international song recorded by Jeanette Anne Dimech, professionally known as Jeanette…

September 15, 2021
Songwriter
La Cucaracha: the song about a stoned legless cockroach as a ridicule against Mexican dictator

La Cucaracha is a fiery Mexican song in the corrido style, a poetic form of the ballad genre prevalent in Central…

April 23, 20211 comment
Music Theory
5 songs featuring Dorian mode

Out of all seven diatonic scales, the major and minor scales have been the two most prevalent in Western music…

August 30, 2020
Poetry
On the Massacre of Glencoe: Walter Scott lyrics set to Beethoven's arrangement of folk melody

The Massacre of Glencoe is one of the darkest chapters in Scottish history which saw the treacherous slaughter of…

August 27, 2020
Poetry
Down by the Salley Gardens: famous Yeats poem evoking old Irish love ballad was set to the traditional air

Down by the Salley Gardens is a famous two-stanza poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats whose contribution to the…

April 8, 20201 comment
Viol
Authentic recreation of Alfonso X El Sabio's medieval works

Alfonso X el Sabio, byname Alfonso the Wise, or the Learned (1221-1284) was the king of Castile and Leon. Along with…

May 23, 2018
Songwriter
Who is the true architect behind The House of the Rising Sun?

The authorship of The House of the Rising Sun can not be accurately determined to this day, since the song is a folk…

April 16, 2018