How was it already established? It was pretty unconventional. The classical music theory is not well suited to describe the Blues. From that point of view, Blues is crazy and wrong - playing dominant major 7th chords all over minor pentatonic scales, using chromatic scale pieces for intros and turnarounds, using a 5 tone scale instead of the accustomed 7 tone scales, adding notes that don't belong to any scale.
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Originally Posted by Jack Pat
Okay... great, but how is that relevant? In fact... how is any of this relevant to the purpose of this thread? I set out to make this thread in hopes of learning more about pre-WWII avant-garde composers, not to argue with someone about whether or not blues is considered to be avant-garde.
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