Re: [Harp-L] Questions re: blue notes and micro-tonality

[IcemanLE@xxxxxxx]

Right on, Rick. 
 
First came the music. Then came the academics to try to explain the music.  
To approach it from the opposite direction can be a frustration, as the mind  
tries to ask for more and more analysis details to try to reconstruct what was  
natural music in the first place.
 
 
In a message dated 9/4/2008 8:21:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

I would  say that trying to define the 'blue third' or blue anything else for 
that  matter is the equivalent of sending the blues to college; 
not a great idea  in my opinion (I don't like what that's done to jazz either)
It's a vernacular form, like all folk music. The best way  to 'define' it is 
to work out what sounds good to you at any given time, and  go for that; the 
flatter, the darker, the  dirtier.




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