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Blues: Oral black american folk or popular melancholic songs of the early twentieth century.

Rhythm And Blues: Popular African-American music style of the 1940s through 1960s featuring a solo singer accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble (piano, guitar, acoustic bass, drums, tenor saxophone), d . . . View Full Definition

Rural Blues: American popular singing style with raspy-voiced male singer accompanied by acoustic steel-string guitar: features melodic blue notes over repeated bass patterns.

Twelve-Bar Blues: Musical structure based on a repeated harmonic-rhythmic pattern that is twelve measures in length (I-I-I-I-IV-IV-I-I-V-V-I-I).

Rock And Roll: American popular music style first heard in the 1950s: derived from the union of African-American rhythm and blues, country-western, and pop music.

New Orleans Jazz: Early jazz style characterized by multiple improvisations in an ensemble of cornet (or trumpet), clarinet (or saxophone), trombone, piano, string bass (or tuba), banjo (or guitar) and drums: . . . View Full Definition

Gold Ground: Many of the painters of the 15th and 16th centuries used grounds either covered or partially covered with gold-leaf. The underlying ground would be gesso. On top of this would be brushed a t . . . View Full Definition

Hue: A specific color from within the visible spectrum of white light: e.g., red, green, blue.

Haiku: Japanese poem of three unrhyming lines in 5, 7, and 5 syllables. For example, windshield wipers swish and monday fm blues say melancholy grace.

Blue Note: A slight drop of pitch on the third, fifth or seventh tone of the scale, common in blues and jazz. Also bent pitch.