![]() ![]() This was a home-made one stringed instrument that was favorite in the early 20th century. The blues guitar style came forth from the American South's instruments of the time which were the banjo and the Diddley Bow. Have you seen my baby? She's so big and fat." I said That must be your woman, cause mine don't look like that. "That must be your woman, cause mine don't look like that. Typically a lost loved one or an overall harsh surrounding prompted the lyrics and the tone of the blues guitar.Īfter the world war, you start to see blues songs that were about relationships and sex. This music was fueled by a lot of brokenheartedness and anger. It has influenced Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, Bluegrass and even heavy rock genres The original blues of the early 1900's, otherwise known as "poor man's blues" was usually associated with hard times, oppressiveness from white folk, cruelness of the police, gambling, economic depression, floods, magic, farming and dry periods. The blues guitar brings a essential role in blues music as well as modern-day music. ![]() The term 'The Blues' refers to the 'blue devils' which signifies down spirits or unhappiness. You will be able to still discover these features of early blues in modern day music, especially hip-hop. This later developed into a line repeating twice and then on the third time around there would be an 'answer line'. The call-and-response aspect of the music came straight from African origins and there were a lot of licks that would get duplicated thrice or more. A lot of facets of the blues comes from African culture out of work songs, spiritual songs, field hollers, chants, shouts and elementary ballads that rhymed. From descriptions we know it was considered to sound "awful", "out of tune " etc, but alas, that is as close as we can get - we can only listen with our own ears.Blues music was deducted from the African-American communities in the U.S. The advantage of being able to modulate though all 12 keys wasn't enough to make the tuning acceptable to people at that time. In his younger days, Bach wrote his" Das wohltemperierte klavier " and a few more pieces for equal temperament, but the rest of his long life he wrote for meantone tuning. If we look at the equally tempered scale, it has been known in western music for about 500 years, but it didn't become the prominent tuning until early 1900's. We can only guess how the music have sounded to people at that time, but I think, we can be sure, that it would have been different from how it sounds to us today. The difference is, that in the tempered scale, we use today, it is right in the middle, dividing the scale into 2 halfs of the exact same size. The term "tritone" existed before the equally tempered scale, as Mireyes says, it simply means "3 whole tones". I now have some new research ahead of me. Having never worked with "just tuning" I'm wondering if it's a whole different ball game. Inverted aug 4th? Or maybe since the aug 4th was a no-no, there wouldn't even be a need to invert it. If the "devil's interval" is the aug 4th, what did they call it when they inverted it? Would it just be considered an How far below a P5 is a dim 5th? What about the "gap" in between? So now I'm thinking about "just intonation" (the natural scale). Prior to "equal temperament" the term would not So the term "tritone" can only apply to this system. In this system, inverting an aug 4th is enharmonic with a dim 5th and both are considered a tritone.īut this is also because raising a 4th a half step is the same pitch as lowering a 5th a half step. Use an "equal temperament" system today and the tritone divides the octave exactly in half. In the natural scale, those two intervals are different, so the tritone then and now are not the exact same pitch.Īs you say, the only reason we can invert a tritone and get the same tritone, is that we I don't know if it's importent or not, but today, the tritone can be inverted, so the interval between b & f is the same as the interval between f & b. Since music then was using the natural scale, there's a few differences from today's music. the most dissonant (ugly) interval had no place in such a context. ![]() Pleasent intervals was the obvious choices since the purpose of this music was to praise God and ofc. At this time, this kind of resolution, that we now use all the time, simply wasn't needed. This was before functional harmony (major /minor), which basically is depending on leading tones, the half steps, that makes a G7 resolve into C. Perfect (consonant and most pleasing ) intervals are : unison, octave, fourth & fifth - the augmented fourth, not only being the most dissonant, was also the most difficult to sing. It's worth to remember, that the early churchmusic, when the tritone was banned, was based on perfect intervals as well as the natural scale. ![]()
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