balladry

[bal-uh-dree]

noun

1. ballad poetry.

2. the composing, playing, or singing of ballads.

balladry

/ ˈbælədrɪ /

noun

1. ballad poetry or songs

2. the art of writing, composing, or performing ballads

Word History and Origins

Origin of balladry¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; ballad + -ry

Example Sentences

His mother and father encourage him to see the beauty and balladry in everyday life, and with earnest, wide-eyed awe, Jupe quickly runs circles around costars twice his age.

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Her new piano-brooder of a single, “Hard to Love Me,” hits right in the Adele-shaped hole in pop balladry right now.

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The Recording Academy can’t get enough of young fogeys like Laufey, whose pop-jazz balladry might evoke voters’ memories of Norah Jones.

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Oasis sounded great, with those three guitars snarling and shimmering over sturdy grooves that mapped a middle ground among punk, glam and late-Beatles balladry; Liam’s voice was somehow both brawny and sweet as he reached for the high notes with a kind of taunting effortlessness.

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Their second album, Paranoid, marked a seismic leap in songcraft, from the visceral anti-war anthem War Pigs, to the creeping intensity of the title track, via the sci-fi horror of Iron Man, and the ghostly balladry of Planet Caravan.

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