![]() ![]() ![]() Because blues tonality is so widespread and important in Western music, I argue that we should teach it as part of the basic music theory curriculum. In order to make sense of this fact, we need to understand blues as belonging to its own system of tonality, distinct from major, minor and modal systems. ![]() Instead, they hear an alternative form of consonance. But blues listeners do not experience the music as strange or dissonant. Blues harmony does not fit into major or minor tonality, and it frequently violates the “rules” of voice leading and chord function. Blues follows harmonic conventions that are quite different from those of Western European common practice. It is commonly described as a combination of African rhythms and European harmonies. The blues is a foundational element of America’s vernacular and art music. Read this treatise in Spanish, translated by Jesús Fernández. See a more beginner-friendly blues primer here. ![]()
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