John Weeks Moore, Complete Encyclopaedia of Music… (1880)
“ Ballad style. In the air or manner of a ballad. BALLAD TUNE. The common song or tune of a ballad. Bab lad tune generally means a kind of song, adapted to the capacity of the lower class of people. The ballad has not, however, always been confined to the low and inferior order of compositions. In an old English version of the Bible, Solomon's Song is designated as the Ballad of Ballads. ”
