Texas Rural Blues - ANSWER- Single-note bass string runs
- Arpeggiated chords (separates chord so each note is played one at a time)
- Repeated melodic, rhythmic figures (riffs) on bass strings
alternate playing on bass and treble strings
- Single-string melody fills
*Blind Lemon Jefferson*;...
- Vocalists often have a nasal quality, slide from pitch to pitch, use yodeling technique
- Texts often about unrequited love, jilted lovers
Col. Tom Parker - ANSWER- Elvis's manager
- got a huge cut of Elvis' money by getting song writing credit
- slow released Elvis' work while he was at war
Call and Response - ANSWER- known for in Blues music
- come from work songs that were used during the times of slavery; made work go faster
- one caller, people would reply to the caller, keeps tempo
- think of the Mississippi inmates who sang while cutting down a tree so they all cut at the same time
Field Hollers - ANSWER- known for in Blues music
- also from the time of slavery
- used to call from one field to the other
- voice starts out high from strain, then descends as you run out of air and your voice gets tired
Blue Notes - ANSWERlowered 3rd, 7th scale degrees
Strophic Song Form - ANSWEReither a series of verses that are set to the same music (melody and
harmony) but in which the words change from verse to verse, or it may refer to an alternation of
verses and choruses in which the words of each verse change while the music remains the same, and
the words of the chorus, or refrain, remains the same throughout the song
Standard Song Form - ANSWERoften diagramed as AABA (most frequently), ABAB, or ABAC. In this
diagram, "A" represents a verse or a verse and chorus that are combined as a unit while "B"
represents the bridge of new, contrasting material. The contrasting music in the bridge might be a
new melody or a new chord progression, and is often both, combined with a new or contrasting idea
expressed in the words. Very often there is a brief key change (modulation) at the bridge, usually to a
key that is related to the original tonic (like the subdominant, dominant, or relative major or minor).
What do the Rural Blues all have in common? - ANSWER-male solo singers - Era of the Hobo; life on
the road
-Self-accompanied
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