the blues has an incredible ( fascinating) type of harmonic sophistication, but serious academic theorists have historically tended to ignore it (or to quickly dismiss it as basic non-conforming) . this is a paraphrase of some concepts outlined in W.A. Mathieu’s fantastic text “harmonic experience,” one of the few books to examine blues harmony w/ any kind of serious, high-level rigor… and to contextualize it alongside other harmonic traditions as a peer . if this seems interesting to you i h

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