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"Blues" Definition

noun-plural

A state of depression or melancholy. Often used with the.
A style of music that evolved from southern African-American secular songs and is usually distinguished by a strong 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first: "The blues is an expression of anger against shame and humiliation” ( B.B. King).

noun plural but singular or plural in construction

Low spirits .
A song often of lamentation characterized by usually 12-bar phrases, 3-line stanzas in which the words of the second line usually repeat those of the first, and continual occurrence of blue notes in melody and harmony.
Jazz or popular music using harmonic and phrase structures of blues.

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