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' Mr Ballad really imagines he has a share in this same Opera. He has sent me a whole quire of Songs, adapted to old Tunes, and made Collections among all his Friends of all the Doggerel Stuff they had ever scribbled to their Mistresses, to help me with my Design.'
Lucie Skeaping presents some examples of ballad opera, which belongs more to popular tradition than high culture.

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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