Genre of Negro musical art. In translation from English means: despondency, a melancholy, grief. Originally the solo lyrical song of the American Negros from coast Mississipi was called as a blues. It is known from the end of XIX century, as a rule, expresses melancholy on the lost happiness. In a blues of beginning XX century meet motives of the social protest. Musical features of a blues in many respects are inherited from music of African people; syncopes (displacement of rhythmic accents), the sliding, not fixed downturn of steps лада, improvisations executions. Among musicians the capacious and exact formula of a blues is in use: the blues is when to the good person badly.

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