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- Title
The Common Stock of Schemes in Early Blues and Country Music.
- Authors
STOIA, NICHOLAS
- Abstract
Early blues and country musicians from the racially separated "race" and "hillbilly" record series share a common stock of schemes--preexisting harmonic grounds and melodic structures that are common resources for the creation of songs. There are five types: 1) a harmonic progression supporting one discant; 2) a harmonic progression primarily associated with a small number of specific discants, but which also supports original discants; 3) a harmonic progression primarily supporting original discants; 4) a melodic structure with general requirements for the harmony, and 5) a melodic structure for which there is little shared conception of the harmony.
- Subjects
BLUES musicians; COUNTRY musicians; BLUES music; COUNTRY music; HARMONY in music; MUSICAL composition
- Publication
Music Theory Spectrum, 2013, Vol 35, Issue 2, p194
- ISSN
0195-6167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1525/mts.2013.35.2.194