In the later 19th century it took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and the term is now often used as synonymous with any love song, particularly the pop or rock power ballad.

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.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

The most common use of the term ballad in modern pop music is for an emotional love song.

In the late 1680s, the term appears in the satirical Williamite ballad Lilliburlero which includes the line " Ho brother Taig hast thou heard the decree?

In the well-known 16th century English folk ballad " The Three Ravens ", the term " fallow doe " is used metaphorically, as meaning " a young woman ".

This term derives from the word ballad, and these events are often celebrated by crowds of many people.

Genres such as ballad and rock are still popular today ; however, the term can be debatable.

Use in this term can be seen in a 1914 Irish Unionist ballad:

The term blues ballad is used to refer to a specific form of popular music which fused Anglo-American and Afro-American styles from the late 19th century onwards.

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.

Today the term blues ballad is used to describe a song that uses a blues format with a slow tempo, often dealing with themes of love and affection.

However, the usual term for this form of ballad is still epic song.

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.

The term ballad opera is used to refer to a genre of English stage entertainment originating in the 18th century and continuing to develop in the following century and later.

It is from this connection that the term " ballad opera " is drawn.

The first of these is in some ways connected to the " pastoral " form of the ballad opera, and the latter to the satiric Beggar's Opera type, but in all they represent yet further reinterpretations of the term.

The term is the Old Norse / Icelandic translation of, a neologism coined in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism, used by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason.

The form of entertainment provided was usually Beijing opera, and foodservice establishments of this class always had long term contracts with a Beijing opera troupe to perform onsite.

Foodservice establishments of this class would also have long term contracts with Beijing opera troupes to perform onsite, but they did not have long term contracts with famous performers ( such as national treasure class performers ) to perform onsite on regular basis, however these topnotch performers would still perform at foodservice establishments of this category occasionally.

For onsite banquet hosting, entertainment was still provided, but foodservice establishments of this category did not have long term contracts with Beijing opera troupes, so that performers varied for time to time, and topnotch performers usually did not perform here or any other foodservice establishments ranking lower.

Wagner referred to " Tristan und Isolde " not as an opera, but called it " Eine Handlung " ( literally drama or plot ), which was the equivalent of the term used by the Spanish playwright Calderón for his dramas.

Overture ( French ouverture ; German Ouvertüre, Vorspiel ; Italian overtura ; i. e. opening ) in music is the term originally applied to the instrumental introduction to an opera.

The term originated in the early 17th century simultaneously with opera and oratorio.

In other German opera houses, the term generally refers to a deputy conductor reporting to the Generalmusikdirektor ( General Music Director, usually also the chief conductor ).

In classical music and opera, the term soubrette refers to both a voice type and a particular type of opera role.

Patience ( 1881 ) was the first opera to appear at the Savoy Theatre, and thus, in a strict sense, the first true " Savoy Opera ", although the term " Savoy Opera " has, for over a century, included the complete set of thirteen operas that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote for Richard D ' Oyly Carte:

To their contemporaries, the term " Savoy Opera " referred to any opera that appeared at that theatre, regardless of who wrote it.

The art film / avant-garde opera Koyannisqatsi references both the Hopi term Ko. yan. nis. qatsi (" life out of balance "), and three Hopi prophecies — i. e. warnings or eschatology.

The term is used to describe a woman of outstanding talent in the world of opera, and, by extension, in theatre, cinema and popular music.

Among his most well-known accomplishments are the creation of Tommy, for which the term " rock opera " was coined, and a second pioneering rock opera, Quadrophenia ; his dramatic stage persona ; his use of guitar feedback as sonic technique ; and the introduction of the synthesiser as a rock instrument.

Additionally, opera critics sometimes employ the term sprechgesang in a pejorative sense — using it to condemn a style of Wagnerian vocalism where the over-articulation of the words of an aria ( or some other type of sung musical passage ) chops up the aria's smooth flow.

An alternative word for torero is toreador in English ( and in Bizet's opera Carmen ), but this term ( older than torero ) is not used in Spain and seldom in Latin America.

The term was first used by the German writer and philosopher K. F. E. Trahndorff in an essay in 1827 The German opera composer Richard Wagner used the term in two 1849 essays.

In his extensive book Opera and Drama ( completed in 1851 ) he takes these ideas further, describing in detail his idea of the union of opera and drama ( later called music drama despite Wagner's disapproval of the term ), in which the individual arts are subordinated to a common purpose.

She followed a career in opera as a contralto, performing in La Scala, Milan, Italy, and a term as prima donna in the Imperial Opera of Warsaw, Poland, indicating that she was an extraordinary singer ( in reality, there was no Imperial Opera in Warsaw ).

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

It holds an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word `` intellectual '' has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human virtues.

As he died because of a small wound on his heel, the term Achilles ' heel has come to mean one's point of weakness.

The term " the United States " has historically been used, sometimes in the plural (" these United States "), and other times in the singular, without any particular grammatical consistency.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

In more modern English usage, the term " adobe " has come to include a style of architecture popular in the desert climates of North America, especially in New Mexico.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small bodies of the inner Solar System out to the orbit of Jupiter, which are usually rocky or metallic.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring only to the Ionian colonies along the coast.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring to the Ionian colonies on the Asia Minor coast.

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

The term " absolute value " has been used in this sense since at least 1806 in French and 1857 in English.

* The modern term " style " has a bearing on how material items such as pottery or architecture can be interpreted.

The term anti-Semitic has been used on occasion to include bigotry against other Semitic-language peoples such as Arabs, but such usage is not widely accepted.

The House of Representatives has 18 members, elected for a two year term, 17 in single-seat constituencies and one by a public meeting on Swain Island.

The Senate also has 18 members, elected for a four year term by and from the chiefs of the islands.

However, this ambiguity has been the source of controversy, particularly among Latin Americans, who feel that using the term solely for the United States misappropriates it.

The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey, in some cases for centuries ( for example, see Westminster Abbey below ).

But no attempt to identify the figures on existing gems with the personages of Gnostic mythology has had any success, and Abrasax is the only Gnostic term found in the accompanying legends which is not known to belong to other religions or mythologies.

This etymology has remained the standard derivation of the term.

The term Suebi has a double meaning in the sources.

The term has the meaning of one being crestfallen, depressed, despondent, downcast, gloomy, sullen and evidently frowning, scowling.

From the Early Modern period, their name has become a term for female warriors in general.

The term is often used synonymously with the term antibiotic ( s ); today, however, with increased knowledge of the causative agents of various infectious diseases, antibiotic ( s ) has come to denote a broader range of antimicrobial compounds, including anti-fungal and other compounds.