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Music 271: 4/25/07I: The Blues: A: Form:• Solo vocalist accompanied by a guitar, small jazz ensemble, Big Band, guitar based ensembles, etc.• Sing the blues is to get rid of the blues• Most of the early singers were men from the south• 1920s: African-American women singers of the blues began their rise• Twelve-Bar Blues: Strophic forms usually in 5-6 stanzas (most vocal, at least one instrumental in many instances)• Three four-measure phrases: A - A’ - B• A: 2mm (I) + 2 mm (I) Singer → Instrument Call Response• A’: 2mm (IV) + 2mm (I)• B: 2mm (V) + 2mm (I)• Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith were among the first blues singers B: Role of call and response: C: The multiple opportunities for Signifyin’:II: Compositions surveying Jazz to c1945:• c1900-c1925: New Orleans Jazz• Outdoors: Parades• Celebratory Parades: (Political campaigns, Social clubs, Saints’ days, and other religious occasions)• Funereal Parades: (Dirges and hymns prior to internment, Jazz numbers after internment)• Dances: (Two-step (R
