What is the blues?

Blues (English: Blues) is a kind of vocal music and instrumental music based on pentatonic scale, and its other feature is special harmony. Bruce originated from soul music, hymns, labor songs, shouts and hymns of black slaves in the United States in the past. The "Voice of Blues" used in Blues and Qi Ying's singing style all show its western origin.

Blues music

Bruce has a great influence on American and western pop music. Ragtime music, jazz, bluegrass music, rhythm and blues, rock music, country music and ordinary pop songs, and even modern classical music all contain blues elements or are developed from blues. [1] This word is often used to describe melancholy in poetry. The word blues is consistent with the meaning of "blue devil", which means low-key, sad and melancholy. As early as 1798, George Coleman wrote a farce called "Blue Devil, a farce". In the19th century, this word was used to mean tremor, delirium and police. The application of this word in African-American music may be older. Memphis Bruce william christopher handy was written in Memphis in 12, which is the earliest written record of this word in music. Blues music originated in the southern United States in the early 20th century. It also mixes the rhythm and rhythm of similar recitation forms in the church. This kind of music has an obvious feature, that is, it is performed in a form similar to China folk songs, which is called "Call and Reponse" in English. At first, the phrase will give people a feeling of nervousness, crying and helplessness, and then the following music will be like comforting and relieving the suffering people. Just like a suffering person crying to God, and then getting God's comfort and response! Therefore, blues music attaches great importance to self-emotional venting and original or improvisation. This improvisation method has gradually evolved into various kinds of music, such as rock music, swing music and jazz ... so blues is also the root of modern pop music. As for the harmonica widely used in blues music, it began in the mid-1920s. At that time, there were many street performers performing music in America. Their common musical instruments are banjo, drum and a wind instrument called "Pan Quayle". Because guitar and harmonica are better than these traditional instruments and more suitable for playing in open places, harmonica is often used to play blues music gradually. Around 1930s, many blacks moved to Chicago, where blues music and blues harmonica were also spent. Later, they formed a school called Chicago Blues. When listening to blues music, you will find that they all seem to follow the same musical form. The reason is that blues concerts often use a standard form called 12 bar blues.

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