MUSIC 151 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Gloria Estefan, Buddy Guy, Hellhound On My Trail
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Formally trained musicians attempted to notate the blues and standardized it into a set number of measures with a fixed harmonic progression. But folk-blues musicians, however, did not perform blues in three even four-bar sections; their blues were flexible and of varying length, going to the next line when they felt like it. The structure of three even four-bar sections of the blues was not standardized before the blues form was used in print. The mississippi delta is an area of flatland that stretches from memphis, tennessee, to. Vicksburg, mississippi, covering a range of approximately 200 miles. The earliest known blues musicians, certainly the most influential, came from the delta. The genesis of delta blues can be traced down to dockery"s plantation in sunflower county, mississippi. Charley patton (1891-1934), father of the delta blues . Charley began learning guitar at the age of 14 and made his first recording for the paramount label when he was over 40 years old.
