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21 wrz 2014 · The sound of the blues is heard throughout the world, both directly and via its many stylistic descendants: jazz, R&B, country, rock, funk, hip-hop, and so on. Given its ubiquity, it is surprising how rarely the blues is addressed in formal music theory pedagogy.
The Bessie Smith–Louis Armstrong duet of “St. Louis Blues” is a classic example of this sort of musical conversation: Smith begins by singing, : “ I hate to see the evening sun go down .” Armstrong echoes her final note on his cornet and adds a relaxed melodic response.
The main features of blues include: specific chord progressions, a walking bass, call and response, dissonant harmonies, syncopation, melisma and flattened ‘blue’ notes. Blues is known for being microtonal, using pitches between the semitones defined by a piano keyboard.
9 paź 2024 · Blues, secular folk music created by African Americans in the early 20th century, originally in the South. The simple but expressive forms of the blues became by the 1960s one of the most important influences on the development of popular music. Learn more about blues, including notable musicians.
the blues, singing in high pitches and falsettos, entrancing his audiences with blues that conveyed “poverty, exploitation, and deprivation — the bitter existence of Brownsville.” Listeners enjoyed songs such as “Mailman Blues,” which were amusing yet tragic: “a blend of despair and hope.” “Mailman Blues” faithfully
17 lut 2015 · Most recently, Kenneth Aigen has contributed The Study of Music Therapy: Current Issues and Concepts, a book that seeks to articulate the diverse range of theories in music therapy by looking at some of the more common questions related to both music and therapy.
‘The language and poetry of the blues’ explores the lyrical component of the blues. Modern scholars treat the blues primarily as a musical style, but early scholars also studied blues songs as a form of folk poetry, arising from the common language of African Americans.
