List of Music Examples

1. Smith and Brymn, “The Blues” (1912), chorus, 1-4
2. Moore and Gardner, “Chinese Blues” (1915), chorus, 13-16
3. Caldwell and Kern, “Left All Alone Again Blues” (1920), chorus, 1-8
4. Swanstrom and Morgan, “Broadway Blues” (1920), complete
5. White, “Nigger Blues” (1912), complete
6. Nash, “Snakey Blues” (1915), complete
7. Gordon, “Bone-Head Blues” (1917), A and B strains
8. Katzmann, “Bevo Blues” (1919), A strain
9. Gordon, “Bone-Head Blues” (1917), A strain, 1-8, ragtime arrangement
10. Ascending C major scale: a. eighths; b. triplets; c. dotted eighths and sixteenths
11. Fry and Yarborough, “Sterling Fox Trot” (1915), A strain, melody, 13-16: a. as written; b. as performed
12. Claypoole “Ragging the Scale” (1915), B strain, melody, 1-4: a. as written; b. as performed
13. O’Connor, “Four Little Blackberries” (1907), B strain, melody, 1-2: a. as written; b. as performed
14. Bowman, “Twelfth Street Rag” (1914), A strain, 1-4: a. original version; b. fox trot arrangement (1919, arr. Wheeler); c. swung realization
15. Morton, “Jelly Roll Blues” (1915), A strain, 1-4: a. as written; b. as performed
16. Holt and Warner, “Tennessee Blues” (1916), verse and chorus
17. Williams, “Tishomingo Blues” (1917), chorus, 1-16
18. Wilson and Bibo. “Profiteering Blues” (1920), chorus, 1-6
19. Blue intervals
20. Four types of blues notes
21. Handy, “St. Louis Blues” (1914), verse, 1-4
22. Handy, “The Memphis Blues” (1912), C strain, 22-24
23. Wand, “Dallas Blues” (1912), A strain, melody, 1-3
24. Smith and Brymn, “The Blues” (1912), verse, melody and text, 1
25. Handy, “The Memphis Blues” (1912), A strain, melody, 1-3
26. Pinkard, “Those Draftin’ Blues” (1917), chorus, melody and text, 1-4
27. Dowland, “In Darkness Let me Dwell” (1610), 28-33
28. “In Darkness Let Me Dwell”: blues reworking
29. Harris, “Just Blues” (1915), A strain, 1-16
30. Handy, “The Memphis Blues” (1912), intro., 1-4
31. Joplin, “The Entertainer” (1902), B strain, 12-16, and transition between C and D strains
32. Handy, “The Memphis Blues” (1912), C strain, 6-8
33. Handy, “The Memphis Blues” (1912), C strain, 18-20
34. Botsford, “Black and White Rag” (1908), A strain, 1-4
35. Handy, “The Memphis Blues,” C strain, 1: a. Instrumental original (1912), melody; b. Song version (1913), melody and text
36. Handy, “Jogo Blues” (1913), D strain, 5-7
37. Handy, “Jogo Blues” (1913), main motif of A strain
38. Handy, “Jogo Blues” (1913), B strain
39. Handy, “Jogo Blues” (1913), transition between B and C strains
40. Maggio, “I Got the Blues” (1908), A strain
41. a. Maggio, “I Got the Blues” (1908), A strain, melody; b. Handy, “St. Louis Blues” (1914), chorus, melody
42. Maggio, “I Got the Blues” (1908), C strain, 1-4
43. a. Handy, “Jogo Blues” (1913), B strain, melody, 1-4; b. Maggio, “I Got the Blues” (1908), C strain, melody, 1-4 (original C major)
44. Maggio, “I Got the Blues” (1908), A1 strain
45. Handy, “The Memphis Blues” (1912), D strain, 13-17
46. a. Brooks, “I Wonder Where My Easy Rider’s Gone” (1913), chorus, melody and text, 1-8 (original Bb);
b. Handy, “Yellow Dog Blues” (1914), verse, melody and text, 1-8; c. Handy, “Yellow Dog Blues” (1914), chorus, melody and text, 5-8
47. Handy, “Yellow Dog Blues” (1914), chorus, melody and text, 1-4
48. Handy, “Shoeboot’s Serenade” (1915), chorus, 1-4
49. Schubert, “Ständchen”(1828), verse, 1-2
50. Handy, “Shoeboot’s Serenade” (1915), verse, 1-4
51. Handy, “Joe Turner Blues” (1915), chorus, melody and text, 1-3
52. Handy, “Beale Street Blues” (1916), B section
53. Handy, “Beale Street Blues” (1916), chorus, 1-4
54. Seals, “Baby Seals’ Blues” (1912), verse and chorus
55. Wand, “Dallas Blues” (1912), first version, A strain
56. Wand, “Dallas Blues” (1912), first version, A1 strain, 1-8
57. Wand, “Dallas Blues” (1912), second version, A strain, melody
58. Valentine, “1913 Medley Blues” (1913), A strain, melody
59. Valentine, “1913 Medley Blues” (1913), D strain, melody, 1-8
60. a. Valentine, “1913 Medley Blues” (1913), D strain, melody, 1-3;
b. Handy, “Jogo Blues” (1913), A strain, melody, 1-3 (original G major)
61. Phillips, “Florida Blues” (1914), B strain, 1-12
62. Barron, “Original Blues” (1914), D strain
63. Spiller, “New York Tango Blues” (1914), A strain, 1-8
64. Kelley and Wyer, “Long Lost Blues” (1914), chorus, melody and text , 1-8
65. House and Patterson, “Blues” (1914), verse 2, 1-8
66. House and Patterson, “Blues” (1914), verse 5, 1-5
67. Bowman, “Rosary Blues” (1916), A strain
68. Bowman, “Kansas City Blues” (1914), A strain
69. a. Bowman, “Colorado Blues” (1914), B strain, right hand only; b. Same, B1 strain, both hands
70. Thomas, “New Orleans Hop Scop Blues” (1916 version), chorus, 1-12
71. Thomas, “New Orleans Hop Scop Blues” (1916 version), verse, 13-23
72. Thomas, “New Orleans Hop Scop Blues” (1917 version), chorus, 1-4, bass-line
73. Thomas, “Houston Blues” (1918), chorus, 1-4
74. Thomas, “Muscle Shoals Blues” (1921 song version), chorus, 1-12
75. Bradford, “Lonesome Blues” (1916), complete
76. Williams and Williams, “Royal Garden Blues” (1919), chorus, 13-24
77. Bauer, “The Bone Dry Blues” (1918), chorus, 1-8
78. Zoeller, “The German Blues: Its Neutral” (1916), chorus 1, melody and text
79. Dooley, “Louisiana Blues” (1916), verse, 16-23
80. Blessner, “I Have Got the Blues To Day” (1850), verse 1
81. Chapman, “Oh, Ain’t I Got the Blues” (1871), chorus
82. Smith and Bowman, “I’ve Got de Blues” (1901), chorus, 1-8
83. Hoffman and Puderer, “I’m Alabama Bound” (1910 song version), verse, 1-8
84. Hoffman and Puderer, “I’m Alabama Bound” (1910 song version), chorus, 1-8
85. Cannon, “You Needn’t Come Home” (1901), melody and text of verse 1 and chorus 1
86. a. “Frankie and Johnny,” melody and text of verse 1; b. Cannon, “He Done Me Wrong” (1904), melody and text of verse 1, 1-12 (original D major)
87. Cannon, “Won’t You Come Home, Bill Bailey?” (1902), melody and text of verse 1, 1-12 (original G major)
88. “The Ballad of the Boll Weevil,” melody and text of verse 1
89. Queen, “All Alone” (1899), melody and text of verse 1
90. Cannon, “He Done Me Wrong” (1904), verse, 22-24
91. Chapman and Smith, “One o’ Them Things!” (1904), A strain
92. Jackson, “Texas Rag” (1905), C strain
93. a. “Frankie and Johnny,” text and harmony of verse 1; b. Handy, “St. Louis Blues” (1914), text and harmony of verse 1
94. Bessie Smith’s 1925 recording of Handy’s “St. Louis Blues” (Columbia 14064-D), melody and text of verse 1, 1-5
95. Deas and Wilson, “I Cert’ly Loves My Yaller Man” (1898), verse 1
96. Trevathan, “May Irwin’s Bully Song” (1896), melody and text of verse 1
97. Trevathan, “May Irwin’s Bully Song” (1896), melody and text of verse 1, 5-12 with the rhythm shifted in m. 8 to conform to the “Frankie” song family stereotype.
98. Smith, “A Frog He Would A Wooing Go” (c. 1860), melody and text of verse 1