blues

5 letters in word "blues": B E L S U.

Anagrams of blues:

• bulse

• lubes

Words found within blues:

be bel bels bes blue bus el els es les leu lube lues sel slub slue sub sue ule ules us use

• Definitions:
• a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue ... a state of depression; "he had a bad case of the blues"
• The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that typically follows a twelve-bar structure. ...
• Blues is a compilation album by guitarist Jimi Hendrix, released on MCA Records in 1994.
• The Blues, formerly the Auckland Blues, are a professional New Zealand rugby union team based in Auckland, New Zealand, and representing the Northland, North Harbour and Auckland unions. ...
• (or bluelines): Photographic proofs of the printing plates for a book. Blues are reviewed as a means to inspect the set type, layout, and design of the book's pages before it goes to press.
• A style of music evolved from southern African-American secular songs and usually distinguished by a syncopated 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first: "The blues is an expression of anger against ...
• African-American music, developed in the South during the mid-1800s, that became the foundation of most American popular music.
• Musical form that came from rural African-American experience. Using flatted and bending notes in the common music scale, an ultra-emotional sound developed.
• The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) for the sense of depression of spirit or despondency quotes Washington Irving (1807) and Harpers Magazine (Dec. 1883)
• a bedrock genre of traditional American music rooted in African-retentive ante-bellum music, as reflected in the presence of call-and-response, bent or slurred notes, and both lyrical and instrumental improvisation. ...
• Musical style evolved from the soulful songs of American Africans.
• Blues are butterflies that belong to the family Lycaenidae. Most blues have some type of relationship with ants. BONES Bones are made of hard minerals like calcium. They fossilize well. Butterflies and moths have no bones.
• Music of African-American origin which features a repeated 12-bar pattern and employs lyrics which focus upon the harsh realities of negro life.
• (1) A form normally consisting of 12 bars, staying in one key and moving to IV at bar 5. (2) A melodic style, with typical associated harmonies, using certain 'blues scales', riffs and grace notes. (3) A musical genre, ancestral to jazz and part of it. ...
• A musical style primarily with a slow tempo, usually played by a band of guitars, bass and drums, that features melancholy stories of heartache and loss; Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Willie Dixon were early masters of this style.
• Nickname for Blue Cross and/or Blue Shield plans.
• A vocal and instrumental musical form which evolved from African American spirituals, work songs, shouts and chants and has its earliest stylistic roots in West Africa. ...
• an autobiographical chronical of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.

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• blues
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