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Thread #100485   Message #2016729
Posted By: Surreysinger
04-Apr-07 - 08:06 PM
Thread Name: Now define a 'ballad'?
Subject: RE: Now define a 'ballad'?
Sorry, but I would NOT have said that She Moved Through The Fair was a ballad - it's a poem with an identifiable author relatvely recently set to music ; it could be loosely called a folk song,(and a good one at that) but in my books _not_ a ballad.