For the late 19th century the music publishing industry found a market for what are often termed sentimental ballads, and these are the origin of the modern use of the term ballad to mean a slow love song.

Now the most commonly understood meaning of the term ballad, sentimental ballads, sometimes called " tear-jerkers " or " drawing-room ballads " owing to their popularity with the middle classes, had their origins in the early ‘ Tin Pan Alley ’ music industry of the later 19th century.

By the Victorian era, ballad had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called " royalty ballads ", which publishers would pay popular singers to perform in Britain and the United States in " ballad concerts.

By the 1920s, composers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway used ballad to signify a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form ( see below ).

Early pop music drew on the sentimental ballad for its form, gained its use of vocal harmonies from gospel and soul music, instrumentation from jazz, country, and rock music, orchestration from classical music, tempo from dance music, backing from electronic music, rhythmic elements from hip-hop music, and has recently appropriated spoken passages from rap.

Modern enka, as developed in the postwar era, is a form of sentimental ballad music.

Several more Top 10 hits followed, the most successful of which was the ballad " Hello " ( 1984 ), a sentimental love song that showed how far Richie had moved from his R & B roots.

A slower version had been recorded in October 1928, but the real transformation came on May 16, 1930, when bandleader Isham Jones recorded it as a sentimental ballad.

Helen Lightner writes, " This sentimental ballad is folk-like in character with its repetitious but lovely melody and its basic harmonic accompaniment … The quiet and calm of this mood is portrayed by the monotony of the arpeggiated accompaniment, by the repetitiveness of the melodic pattern, and by the strophic form itself.

Five of the recorded songs are yodels-" Sleep, Baby, Sleep ", " Comic Yodle Song ", " Coo Coo " ( J K Emmett's Cuckoo Song, adapted for Anderson's famous 60-second sustained soprano note ), " Laughing Yodel " and " Roll On Silver Moon ", a sentimental ballad, similar to Jimmie Rodgers ' various Southern ballad recordings.

The poem moves from a sentimental and romantic evocation of rural life to a brutal work of protest against military conscription and garrison life at the border forts ; then it becomes an extended outlaw ballad of the life of a violent knife-fighting gaucho matrero ; then it becomes a story of captivity among the Indians, followed finally by bringing its protagonist face-to-face with a series of human echoes of his past.

Crosby and Root's first successful popular songs was " The Hazel Dell " ( 1853 ), a " sentimental ballad " described by its publisher as " a very pretty and easy song, containing the elements of great popularity ", which was released as the work of G. F. Wurzel toward the end of 1853, and was a hit, that was " one of the most popular songs in the country ", because of its performance by both Henry Wood's Minstrels and Christy's Minstrels, selling more than 200, 000 copies of sheet music ,.

He is estimated to have written the lyrics to at least 3, 000 popular songs, among the best-known of which are the sentimental ballad " Danny Boy " set to the tune " Londonderry Air ", the religious " The Holy City ", and the wartime song " Roses of Picardy ".

From the late 19th century the term ballad began to be used for sentimental songs with their origins in the early ‘ Tin Pan Alley ’ music industry.

In his memoir, folk musician Dave Van Ronk claimed that the song was influenced by an old sentimental ballad, " Chimes of Trinity " by Michael J. Fitzpatrick, which Dave Van Ronk had introduced to Dylan.

His best selling piece, a sentimental ballad called " Sweet and Low ", sold over a million copies.

" A Daisy a Day " is a gentle, sentimental ballad in 3 / 4 time, describing the relationship between a boy and girl as they grow up together and ultimately grow old together.

The song is a ballad in the traditional folk sense of a narrative poem in a song, not in the sense used in modern pop music where the term usually refers to a slow, sentimental love song.

" Love Me Tender " is a song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music, adapted from the tune of " Aura Lee " ( or " Aura Lea "), a sentimental Civil War ballad.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

The old Belasco Theater, over which many people had grown sentimental, was only a shell of its former self after arduous years as a USO Center.

The occasion was sentimental ; ;

Jean-François Millet was another whose work he admired, especially his “ sentimental renditions of rural life ”.

Heavy lens diffusion was also used on all the other shots carrying forward the romantic and sentimental parts of the story of this film.

There has been much speculation that Goya and Weiss were romantically linked, however, it is more likely the affection between them was sentimental.

" I think the biggest black mark against our management to date is the Cukor situation and we can no longer be sentimental about it .... We are a business concern and not patrons of the arts ..." Cukor was relieved of his duties, but he continued to work with Leigh and De Havilland off the set.

His sentimental novel Julie, or the New Heloise was of importance to the development of pre-romanticism and romanticism in fiction.

Several volumes of letters were published after his death, as was Journal to Eliza, a more sentimental than humorous love letter to a woman Sterne was courting during the final years of his life.

The affair between Francesco and Lucrezia was passionate, more sexual than sentimental as can be attested in the fevered love letters the pair wrote one another.

Marcel Achard was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly-recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades.

The distinctive quality of Achard's plays was their dreamlike mood of sentimental melancholy, underscored by the very titles which were primarily taken from popular bittersweet songs of the day.

His reputation for being sentimental is based largely on the movie versions of the musicals, especially The Sound of Music, in which a song sung by those in favour of reaching an accommodation with the Nazis, " No Way to Stop It ", was cut.

Yeats was less sentimental and later remarked that " the tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

Behn's story was adapted for the stage by Irish playwright Thomas Southerne, who stressed its sentimental aspects, and as time went on, it came to be seen as addressing the issues of slavery and colonialism, remaining very popular throughout the 18th century.

Although internationally there was negativity surrounding the 1998 Russian financial crisis, the Dow would go on to surpass the 9, 000 level during the month of April in 1998, making its sentimental push towards the symbolic 10, 000 level.

This venerable title ( clearly chosen for sentimental reasons ) had little connection with the former office of the States of Holland ; as a matter of fact, the new office more resembled that of Stadtholder, though even William V, after 1787, had not possessed the powers Schimmelpenninck was to wield.

Perhaps that was always a sentimental upper-class illusion, the notion that gentlemen on both sides of the lines subscribed to the same code of behavior.

Several critics — including both Kilmer's contemporaries and modern scholars — have disparaged Kilmer's work as being too simple, overly sentimental, and suggested that his style was far too traditional, even archaic.

The latter aspect was usually a consequence of one of the Lads, often the more sentimental Bob, reflecting on the past.

The sentimental and upbeat theme song, " Love is a Many-Splendored Thing " was one of the first songs written for a movie to become no.

The concept of kitsch is applied to artwork that was a response to the 19th century art with aesthetics that convey exaggerated sentimentality and melodrama, hence, kitsch art is closely associated with sentimental art.

MGM executive Paul Bern said Bow was " the greatest emotional actress on the screen ", " sentimental, simple, childish and sweet ", and considered her " hard-boiled attitude " a " defense mechanism ".

* William Randolph Barbee ( 17 January 1818 – 16 June 1868 ) was an American sculptor recognized for creating idealized, sentimental classical figures.