sentimental ballad

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sentimental
adjective
uk
/ˌsen.tɪˈmen.təl/us
/ˌsen.t̬əˈmen.t̬əl/
A sentimental person is strongly influenced by emotional feelings, especially about happy memories of past events or relationships with other people, rather than by careful thought and judgment based ...
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ballad
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbæl.əd/us
/ˈbæl.əd/
a song or poem that tells a story, or (in popular music) a slow ...
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He favored thesentimentalballadand the church anthem.
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Modern enka, as developed in the postwar era, is a form ofsentimentalballadmusic.
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The song is asentimentalballad.
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Dance music was instrumental, sentimental ballads belonged to the domain of concert singers.
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The album's sound is bigger and bolder than her debut album's, consisting of upbeat rhythmic jams and powerful sentimental ballads.
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The songwriters of this era wrote formulaic songs, many of them sentimental ballads.
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He wrote a variety of musical forms, including sentimental ballads, comic minstrel songs, art songs, and choral music.
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He was actively sought by music publishers, especially for sentimental ballads, until changing tastes in the 1920s relegated his music to an old-time style.
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Wills himself largely sang blues and sentimental ballads.
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Most of her songs are sentimental ballads.
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She became more and more restricted to simple sentimental ballads, especially those with semi-religious or moralising words, which she declaimed with perfect distinctness and intense fervour.
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It resembles the same sound from its predecessor, but only bigger and bolder in terms of incorporating urban-style to upbeat rhythmic jams and harmonic sound to powerful sentimental ballads.
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