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In jazz and blues music, blue notes are notes added to the major scale for expressive quality, loosely defined by musicians to be an alteration to a scale or chord that makes it sound like the blues.The blue notes correspond approximately to the flatted third, flatted fifth, and flatted seventh scale degrees, although they approximate non- equal tempered pitches found in African work songA work song is a typically acoustic rhythmic song sung by persons who are working in likely mundane conditions. The work song is probably intended to reduce feelings of boredom and to increase feelings of euphoria. Rhythms of work songs also serve to syncs, specifically, the flatted seventh may often be a justly tunedJust intonation is any musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related by whole number ratios. Any interval tuned in this way is called a just interval . Another way of considering just intonation is as being based on members of the harmonic minor seventh. Blue notes are the most important notes in the blues scale.
In its earliest manifestations, the flatted mediantIn music, the mediant is the third degree of the diatonic scale. For example, in the C major scale (white keys on a piano), the mediant is the note E; and the mediant chord uses the notes E, G, and B. In music theory, the mediant chord is symbolized with and subtonicDiatonic functions Scale degrees In music, the subtonic is the lowered seventh degree of the scale, as opposed to the leading tone. For example, in the A minor scale (white keys on a piano), the subtonic is the note G (in C this would be Bb); and the subt were the main blue notes. Emphasis on the flatted fifth or dominantThe word dominant has several possible meanings: In music theory, the dominant or dominant note (second most important) of a key is that which is a perfect fifth above the tonic; in just intonation the note whose pitch is 1. 5 times the frequency of the t was an innovation in bebopBebop or bop is a form of jazz which uses a fast tempo and complex improvisational techniques. It was developed in the early and mid- 1940s. Hard bop later developed from bebop combined with blues and gospel music. History Many big band musicians in New Y in the 1940sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s Years: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Events and trends Technology First nuclear bomb First cruise missile, the.
Blue notes are also prevalent in English folk music (Lloyd 1967, p.52-4).
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- Middleton, Richard (1990/2002). Studying Popular Music. Philadelphia: Open University Press. BooksEnthsiast.com.
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