Aside from the actors voices, background music can make a huge difference with scenes. Having a pleasant warm welcoming type music to start out the play, and during the climax it could be vicious or dramatic to intensify the moment of the scene or act. It's like the difference between a solo singer and a solo singer with choruses in the background filling in the blank spots. It can make the transitions flow better.
All through the colonial period and well into the 19th century, the most common form of popular music in America was the ballad. Musicologists sometimes formulate more precise definitions, but fundamentally a ballad is simply a song that tells a story. The story may be fact or fiction, or a mixture of both, but it has a central narrative: a tale of romance or adventure, the exploits of a famous hero (or villain), the history of a battle won or lost. Ballads both old and new were passed along by travelers from one area to another and handed down by families from one generation to the next. Originally this transmission was entirely oral; but eventually most of the songs were written down and published as broadsides: single sheets of paper printed on one side only, easily and inexpensively produced and widely distributed.
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