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BLUES (eng. Blues, abbr. From blue devils - melancholy, sadness) - originally a solo lyric song Amer. blacks from the shores of the mississippi. Known since the late 19th century .; originated, perhaps still in the middle. century. Usually expressed longing for lost happiness. It took several. stages of development. The earliest form is rural, or archaic, B. Later, the so-called urban, or classic., B. It established the characteristic features, largely inherited from the music of Afr. blacks: syncopated rhythms and polyrhythmia, sliding, non-fixed lowering of the fret levels (the so-called blues intonations, usually at the III and VII stages of major, forming together with the usual steps a 9-tone “blues” fret), improvisation of performance (especially in pauses vote). B. is based on a 12-stroke period of three phrases of 4 measures; the first four-stroke - on the tonic. harmonythen two measures on the subdominant and tonic and two on the dominant and tonic. City B. was accompanied by a banjo, and later - guitars. B.'s wide distribution in the Negro. mountains blocks marked the beginning of the Negro song. musician W. Handy “Memphis Blues” (1912) and especially “Saint Louis Blues” (1914) - the first B. created by a professional.