Music Terms
Musical technique where a pattern or ohrase is directly answered with a repeated statement or new phrase
Call and Response
Instrument made by taking a wire and attaching it to a stationary item such as a barn or table.
Diddley Bow
Claimed blues singers started out singing spirituals
Big Bill Broonzy
Fields, plantations
These notes sounded a little "off" to western ears. Created by singing lower on scale degrees 3, 5, or 7.
Blue notes
Banjo
One of the first people to record the sound of sliding and bending the strings of the guitar in blues music.
Also known as The King of the Delta Blues
Place where the Illinois Central Railroad ended, where many African Americans headed to flee the south
Chicago, Illinois
Chronologically this followed spirituals and was named after its character melancholy sound and subject matter.
THE BLUES
This was used to give guitars an "other worldly" sound by sliding this up and down the neck of the guitar
Broken bottle
Early Pianist in the "Boogie Woogie" movement
Name for the 200 mile wide area that encompassed Memphis Tennessee to Vicksburg Mississippi
The Delta Region
Jump Blues
John Lee Williams "Sunny Boy" played this instrument
The Harmonica
Legendary Delta Bluesman, known for rock standards such as:
Love in Vain Blues
Sweet Home Chicago
Crossroads Blues
Robert Johnson
A spinoff genre of the blues that involved a walking baseline and swung rhythms. Typically involved piano.
Boogie Woogie
Patting the body rhythmically was sometimes called this. Used in the absence of drums by African Americans.
"Patting Juba"
"Harmonica Wizard"
John Lee Williams "Sunny Boy"