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MusicalWork |
A Work intended to be perceivable as a combination of sounds, with or without accompanying
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AcousticChicagoBlues |
A version of Chicago Blues that uses no electric instruments. Chicago blues developed
in the early 20th century after the Great Migration. The style blends urban living
themes with traditional blues music.
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BoogieWoogie |
With geographical origins reaching deep into the Southern United States and musical
ingredients inherited from ragtime and the blues of the Mississippi Delta, Boogie
Woogie is considered by many to be a forefather of Rock n Roll and Rockabilly. Originally
performed for dance and characteristically identified as a percussive and virtuosic,
piano-based blues technique, Boogie Woogie's musical identity is fundamentally defined
by a rapid, two-handed piano conversation -- comprised of a left- handed bass (i.e.
a walking or ostinato bass pattern) and a melodically-playful, often wildly-improvised,
right-hand -- chronicled within a twelve-bar blues song-form.
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BritishBlues |
Regional, electric guitar-centric form of blues music that emerged in Britain following
exposure to American blues records. Many prominent British classic rock artists first
started playing together as blues musicians, including The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton,
and Led Zeppelin.
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ChicagoBlues |
One of the epicenters of Traditional Electric Blues, Chicago Blues used amplification
on guitar, electric bass and harmonica. Chicago Blues has a more extended palette
of notes than the standard six-note blues scale; often, notes from the major scale
and dominant 9th chords are added which gives the music more of a 'jazz feel' while
remaining in the confines of the blues genre. Chicago blues is also known for its
heavy rolling bass. Chicago Blues developed in the first half of the twentieth century
due to the Migration of poor Black workers which moved from the South into the industrial
cities of the North such as Chicago.
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ClassicFemaleBlues |
Blue music based around female vocalists. E.g. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters.
The style was wildly popular in the 1920s and helped shape the blues genre.
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CountryBlues |
An acoustic, mainly guitar-driven form of the blues, that mixes blues elements with
characteristics of country and folk.
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DeltaBlues |
Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues music. It originated in the
Mississippi Delta, a region of the United States. Guitar and harmonica are its dominant
instruments; slide guitar (usually played on a steel guitar) is a hallmark of the
style. Vocal styles in Delta blues range from introspective and soulful to passionate
and fiery.
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ElectricTexasBlues |
Texas blues played with electric instruments. |
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HillCountryBlues |
Northern Mississippi style of blues characterized by a strong emphasis on rhythm and
percussion, steady guitar riffs, few chord changes, unconventional song structures,
and heavy emphasis on the 'groove', which has been characterized as a 'hypnotic boogie'.
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Jump-Blues |
An up-tempo style of blues, usually played by small groups and featuring saxophone
or brass instruments. It was popular in the 1940s and was a precursor of rhythm and
blues and rock and roll.
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ModernBlues |
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NewOrleansBlues |
A subgenre of blues music and a variation of Louisiana blues that developed in the
1940s and 1950s in and around the city of New Orleans, rooted by the rich blues roots
of the city going back generations earlier. Strongly influenced by jazz and incorporated
Caribbean influences, it is dominated by piano, saxophone, and guitar.
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PianoBlues |
A catch-all term for blues genres that are structured around the piano as the primary
musical instrument. Boogie Woogie is one of the best known styles of piano blues.
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PiedmontBlues |
Spanning most of the Eastern seaboard -- from Delaware to Florida -- Piedmont Blues
refers at once to the geographical proximity of its practitioners and to a distinct
style of playing guitar. This 'Piedmont style' consists of a syncopated finger- picked
guitar melody that follows a ragtime-esque rhythm. Ensembles usually consist of a
solo performer who both sings and plays guitar. Piedmont style can be traced back
to the 1920s, though it did not gain popularity until the 1930s and early 40s. By
the end of World War II, the style had fallen out of favor-- only to attain an audience
once again during the 60s Folk Revival. It remained popular in black communities until
the final quarter of the 20th century.
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Roots |
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SwampBlues |
Swamp Blues arose from the Louisiana sound incorporating elements of zydeco, soul
music and Cajun music. It is noticeably more laid back than other blues styles --
even its uptempo songs are reminiscent of slow blues. Utilizes simple, but effective
guitar work and standard blues form.
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TexasBlues |
A style of blues with a strong jazz/swing influence. The style originated in Texas
in the 1920s.
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TraditionalAcoustic |
Blues came from over a hundred-year-evolving juxtaposition of the musical and cultural
traditions of Africa (i.e. African American slaves) and Europe. Traditional Blues
represent the structural and cultural genesis of blues, a genre that manifested an
array of African-American cultural experience (i.e. spirituals to work songs to field
hollers) into a three-phrase lyrical prose aligned within a 12-bar song structure.
The 12-bar blues song-form is musically identified by a thematic, three-chord progression
which uses the tonic, sub-dominant and dominant chords of the scale and a melodically
alternating, bended 'blue note': a lowered third scale degree (or mediant), which
alternates with frequent improvisation, between its natural third scale degree. Rooted
in the traditions of the Deep South and also known as Country Blues, Traditional Acoustic
Blues is primarily minimal in instrumentation (i.e. a vocalist accompanied by an acoustic
guitar) and lyric themes tend to focus on hardship and sorrow.
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TraditionalElectric |
The 1920s was witness to a Black workers' emigration from life on the Delta; Black
workers left behind rural plantation life and headed into urban centers, North, West
and East, which promised a higher quality of life. Both this urbanization, which shifted
the geographical focus of blues away from its traditional Southern Roots, and the
invention of the electric guitar (which had gained popularity in the Jazz Big Bands
of 1930s) gave birth to the adoption of the electric guitar into Blues. Early Traditional
Electric Blues traces include West Coast Blues guitarist T-Bone Walker (originally
form Texas), who began experimenting with the electric guitar in the mid 1930s in
Los Angeles. While in the 1940s, in Memphis, Memphis Minnie, Muddy Waters and Arthur
'Big Boy' Crudup in Chicago, in Texas, Sam 'Lightnin Hopkins and in Detroit, John
Lee Hooker. Through the 1950s-1970s, Traditional Electric Blues paved the way for
other genres including Rock N' Roll, R&B, Soul and Classic Rock many artists of which
continued to expand the aesthetic potential of the Blues by applying more contemporary
instrumentation to it, all the while upholding the essential components of Blues music
in their compositions. Electric blues is a type of Traditional Blues music distinguished
by the amplification of the guitar, bass guitar and often the harmonica.
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WestCoastBlues |
Influenced by jazz and jump blues, with a strong piano-dominated sound and jazz-like
guitar solos. Originated with Texas blues players who relocated to California in the
1940s.
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avs:ClassifiedGenre |
A Type of genre.
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avs:DanceAndRhythmStyle |
A dance and rhythm style. |
DDEX Data Dictionary for Allowed Value Sets, 2019-09-16