BLUES

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in :African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States around the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll is characterized by specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues chord progression is the most common. The blue notes that, for expressive purposes are sung or played flattened or gradually bent in relation to the pitch of the major scale, are also an important part of the sound.

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blues

Noun

The painting was vibrantly colored in reds and greens and blues.
  1. A feeling of sadness or depression.
  2. One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
    Your blues is just like mine.
    Your blues are just like mine.
  3. A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar structure and using the blues scale.
    Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region.
    A large portion of modern popular music is influenced by the blues.
  4. A musical composition following blues forms.
    My next number is a blues in G.
  5. A uniform made principally of a blue fabric.
    ''The marched in their dress blues.
  6. Any of a number of sports teams which wear blue kit.

Verb

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