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Blue note

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In jazz and blues, a blue note (also "worried" note) is a note that—for expressive purposes—is sung or played at a slightly different pitch than standard. [1]

37 relations: Added tone chord, Altered chord, Blues, Blues scale, Country blues, Degree (music), Diatonic and chromatic, Equal temperament, Flat (music), Folk music of England, Glissando, Gunther Schuller, Happy (Pharrell Williams song), Harmonic series (music), Harmonic seventh, Harold Arlen, Jazz, Major and minor, Microtonal music, Minor scale, Minor seventh, Minor third, Music of Africa, Music of Asia, Musical note, Peter van der Merwe (musicologist), Pitch (music), Popular music, Quarter tone, Semitone, Stormy Weather (song), Sweet About Me, Trill (music), Tritone, Twelve-bar blues, Why Don't You Do Right?, Work song.

Added tone chord

An added tone chord is a non-tertian chord composed of a tertian triad and an extra "added" note.

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Altered chord

In music, an altered chord, an example of alteration, is a chord with one or more notes from the diatonic scale replaced by a neighboring pitch in the chromatic scale.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Blues scale

The term blues scale refers to several different scales with differing numbers of pitches and related characteristics.

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Country blues

Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is acoustic, mainly guitar-driven forms of the blues, that mixes blues elements with characteristics of country and folk.

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Degree (music)

In music theory, scale degree refers to the position of a particular note on a scale relative to the tonic, the first and main note of the scale from which each octave is assumed to begin.

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Diatonic and chromatic

Diatonic (διατονική) and chromatic (χρωματική) are terms in music theory that are most often used to characterize scales, and are also applied to musical instruments, intervals, chords, notes, musical styles, and kinds of harmony.

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Equal temperament

An equal temperament is a musical temperament, or a system of tuning, in which the frequency interval between every pair of adjacent notes has the same ratio.

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Flat (music)

In music, flat or bemolle (Italian: "soft B") means "lower in pitch".

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Folk music of England

The folk music of England is tradition-based music, which has existed since the later medieval period.

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Glissando

In music, a glissando (plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another.

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Gunther Schuller

Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian and jazz musician.

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Happy (Pharrell Williams song)

"Happy" is a song written, produced, and performed by American singer Pharrell Williams, from the ''Despicable Me 2'' soundtrack album.

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Harmonic series (music)

A harmonic series is the sequence of sounds—pure tones, represented by sinusoidal waves—in which the frequency of each sound is an integer multiple of the fundamental, the lowest frequency.

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Harmonic seventh

The harmonic seventh interval, also known as the septimal minor seventh, or subminor seventh, is one with an exact 7:4 ratioAndrew Horner, Lydia Ayres (2002).

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Harold Arlen

Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck; February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Major and minor

In Western music, the adjectives major and minor can describe a musical composition, movement, section, scale, key, chord, or interval.

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Microtonal music

Microtonal music or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".

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Minor scale

In music theory, the term minor scale refers to three scale formations – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending) – rather than just one as with the major scale.

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Minor seventh

In music theory, a minor seventh is one of two musical intervals that span seven staff positions.

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Minor third

In the music theory of Western culture, a minor third is a musical interval that encompasses three half steps, or semitones.

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Music of Africa

The traditional music of Africa, given the vastness of the continent, is historically ancient, rich and diverse, with different regions and nations of Africa having many distinct musical traditions.

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Music of Asia

Asian music encompasses numerous different musical styles originating from a large number of Asian countries.

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Musical note

In music, a note is the pitch and duration of a sound, and also its representation in musical notation (♪, ♩).

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Peter van der Merwe (musicologist)

Peter van der Merwe was born in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Pitch (music)

Pitch is a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Quarter tone

A quarter tone is a pitch halfway between the usual notes of a chromatic scale or an interval about half as wide (aurally, or logarithmically) as a semitone, which itself is half a whole tone.

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Semitone

A semitone, also called a half step or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically.

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Stormy Weather (song)

"Stormy Weather" is a 1933 torch song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler.

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Sweet About Me

"Sweet About Me" is the second single by Australian singer-songwriter Gabriella Cilmi from her debut album, Lessons to Be Learned (2008).

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Trill (music)

The trill (or shake, as it was known from the 16th until the 19th century) is a musical ornament consisting of a rapid alternation between two adjacent notes, usually a semitone or tone apart, which can be identified with the context of the trill.

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Tritone

In music theory, the tritone is defined as a musical interval composed of three adjacent whole tones.

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Twelve-bar blues

The twelve-bar blues or blues changes is one of the most prominent chord progressions in popular music.

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Why Don't You Do Right?

"Why Don't You Do Right?" (originally recorded as "Weed Smoker's Dream") is an American blues- and jazz-influenced pop song written by Joseph "Kansas Joe" McCoy in 1936.

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Work song

A work song is a piece of music closely connected to a form of work, either sung while conducting a task (usually to coordinate timing) or a song linked to a task which might be a connected narrative, description, or protest song.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_note

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