Author Question: How does the author describe the way a blues singer composes? What will be an ideal ... (Read 76 times)

student77 · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

How does the author describe the way a blues singer composes?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

How does Poor Boy Blues end?

What will be an ideal response?

billybob123 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

A blues singer rarely composes' self-consciously. Instead, lines and stanzas seem to just come,' sometimes in a rush but more often one at a time and widely spaced. Songs that blues singers memorize usually stick to one idea or event. . . . Today, a few blues songs are improvised in performance, but most are memorized beforehand. . . . In short, most blues singers today think a blues song should have a fixed, not variable, text. (Worlds of Music p. 208).

Answer to Question 2

The music stops (all the instruments drop out) and,
Unaccompanied, Lucas sings the words please have mercy on poor boy (this is known as a vocal tacet).
Instruments quickly re-enter and end on a held note.