The Blues : Kind Of Instrumental Musical Form
The blues is a vocal and instrumental musical form
, derived from work songs of Afro-American in the United States emerged in the early twentieth century. It is a style where (the) singer (Smoker) expresses its sorrow and hard times (hence the expression "having the blues"). The blues had a major influence on American popular music, since we find traces in jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, hard rock, country, soul, pop music variety and even in art music.
The term comes from the blues of the English abbreviation Blue devils (literally "blue devils", which means "black thoughts").
The term blue where the blues is also derived from the Old French word for "personal history" (it remains in the current French term trifle) is, for all bluesmen, the meaning of the blues song first person singular. The Blue Note - in fact the pentatonic minor commonly used in Asian music, then adding a discordant note - gives a special sound characteristic of the blues. The use of this "blue note" is the essence of blues music has many origins (African, Asian Indians through, Irish, French, too, etc..)
The use of the phrase in black American music since the early 20th century in American Music Hall (Vaudeville) and was commonly used in the nineteenth century in plays about blacks in the southern United States (see in Americana, Fayard). WC Handy has somehow formalized in his Memphis Blues in 1903.
The oldest forms of blues from the southern United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. These forms were mostly oral, sometimes accompanied by a rhythm provided by a blunt instrument. It is mainly in the cotton fields of the delta region of Mississippi (Senatobia between Clarksdale and) that these forms are more complex tricks. One form is the earlier blues Fife and Drums played in the Mississippi Hill Country region (it is a percussion ensemble led by a fife, bamboo instrument played by the master on the subject, Othar Turner ).
There were other forms of blues with a blunt instrument, the diddley bow, a rope attached to a board, the jug, jug in soil in which they blew. Then the blues has evolved with simple instruments such as acoustic guitar, piano and harmonica. The legend tells that one of the guitarists blues, Robert Johnson, has signed a pact with the devil that would have allowed him to become a virtuoso of the blues (blue devils: it is music related to the evil forces that were leaked and released by many people in the U.S.). However, Robert Johnson would not be the first to have told this story is another bluesman, author of the song Canned Heat Tommy Johnson, who was behind.
WC Handy was one of the first musicians to take blues tunes, to arrange and interpret them by singers with orchestras. He was also the author of the most famous pieces, such as the famous St. Louis Blues.
From the perspective of the texts, the first blues projects tended to repeat one to four times. In the early twentieth century, the structure was standardized in its most common form: "AAB". In this structure, a verse is sung on the first four bars ("A"), then repeated on the following four ("A"), finally, a second verse is sung over the last four bars (B), as in the following example: "Woke up this morning with the Blues down in my soul" Woke Up This Morning With The Blues down in my soul / My baby left me and gone, got a heart as black as coal''.
The 1920s and 1930s saw the emergence of the recording industry, and thus increasing the popularity of singers and guitarists like Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blind Blake, who recorded for Paramount Records, Lonnie Johnson with Okeh Records. These recordings were known by the term "race records (music racial) as they were intended exclusively for African-American audience. But the 1920s also experienced the classic blues singers extremely popular, such as Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Victoria Spivey.
During the 1980s and until today as the traditional and contemporary blues has continued to evolve through the work of Robert Cray, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder, Albert Collins, Keb 'Mo', Alvin Youngblood Corey Harris, Jessie Mae Hemphill, RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Kim Wilson, James Harman and Hollywood Fats two guitarists mann and David "Kid" Ramos, Ali Farka Toure, and many others.
The style of blues Texas blues-rock "was created in the 1980s, and uses the guitar solo and accompaniment simultaneously. Texas style was strongly influenced by the blues-rock band from England (as John Mayall). The major artists of the style Texas Blues were Stevie Ray Vaughan Fabulous Thunderbirds and ZZ Top.
by: Anna Kerry
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