blues


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blues
n. state of depression, sadness, melancholy; style of syncopated jazz that originated from the early lamenting folk music of African Americans and is characterized by the repeated use of flat notes (Music)
 
blue
n. color blue, color of the sky or sea
 
v. paint blue; treat with bluing (substance used to whiten clothes); waste money, spend extravagantly (Slang)


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Blues
Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that most often follows a twelve-bar structure. It emerged in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed English and Scots-Irish narrative ballads. The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of African influence. The blues influenced later American and Western popular music, as it became part of the genres of jazzbluegrassrhythm and bluesrock and rollhip-hop, and pop songs.
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Blues (der)
n. blues, style of jazz (Music)

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blues (m)
n. blues, state of depression, sadness, melancholy; style of syncopated jazz that originated from the early lamenting folk music of African Americans and is characterized by the repeated use of flat notes (Music)

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blues (m)
n. blues, style of syncopated jazz that originated from the early lamenting folk music of African Americans and is characterized by the repeated use of flat notes (Music)


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