Ballad
Ballad noun - A short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment.
Usage example: a haunting ballad about lost love and loneliness
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Requiem and ballad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Requiem" instead a noun "Ballad".
Requiem
Requiem noun - A composition expressing one's grief over a loss.
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- Sigh's "Requiem - Nostalgia" could be considered a Black Metal take on this trope, though by the standards of most other genres it would be too heavy to be considered a ballad, thanks to the Metal Scream.
Source: Power Ballad -
Including the Paradox Scope battles and the Requiem Of The Goddess DLC, Caius Ballad and his Chaos/Jet Bahamut forms are fought 13 times, the most boss battles of any Final Fantasy boss ever.
- Perhaps the band's most iconic example is "Requiem - Nostalgia", which starts out as a stately Power Ballad and ends with a flippant classical snippet (an excerpt from Fryderyk Chopin's Minute Waltz) overlaid with what sounds like several hundred samples of giggling babies.
Source: Mood Whiplash / Music
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