love ballad, rock ballads A love ballad is simply a narrative poem set to music, and we have seen love ballads in virtually every genre of music out there. One can find a love ballad in opera, rock and roll, liturgical music, folk music, jazz, and possibly rap, although I'm hard pressed to think of a love ballad in a rap format.

Because love is such a powerful force in our lives, almost everyone has heard a love ballad that moves them deeply, which is probably why love ballads show up in all these types of music. Some of the most beautiful songs in opera are the love ballads, and they have a wonderful, lyrical quality to them that makes the music so memorable. A love ballad naturally is harder to find in liturgical music, but there are religious songs about the deep love that humans are capable of feeling toward spiritual issues, and the music they are set to is often extremely moving. Rock ballads about love are common, as they are in folk music. They say that music is the universal language, and when one hears the love ballads from all these different musical styles, we know that to be true.