Syncretic Blues
The Blues is syncretic. All forms that are derived from the Blues are based on the essential syncretic nature of the Blues (If you don't know what 'syncretic' means, you can look it up. This is the internet, you know).
Nice to know that there is a word which aptly describes the balancing of otherwise irreconcilable forms. I'm referring primarily to the simultaneous use of the Mixolydian and Aeolian modes without which there would be no Blues as we know it.
When I teach basic Blues forms I like to emphasize the fact that Blues was not accepted as a legitimate musical form by late 19th and early 20th century musicologists because these formalists couldn't handle the idea of any music being 'Major' and 'minor' at the same time.
Nice to know that there is a word which aptly describes the balancing of otherwise irreconcilable forms. I'm referring primarily to the simultaneous use of the Mixolydian and Aeolian modes without which there would be no Blues as we know it.
When I teach basic Blues forms I like to emphasize the fact that Blues was not accepted as a legitimate musical form by late 19th and early 20th century musicologists because these formalists couldn't handle the idea of any music being 'Major' and 'minor' at the same time.
posted by Mark Newstetter at 7:13 PM
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