Ballad
Lewis Turco, in The Book of Forms, describes Ballads as follows:
“The ballad is a relatively short lyric verse tale meant to be sung. There are distinctions to be made between literary ballads and folk ballads; the latter were passed down through oral traditions from balladeer to balladeer (a wandering minstrel, gleeman, jongleur, minnesinger, bard, or scop—an old English court or household poet-harpist-singer)." (Turco 2020, 352)