The blues

Since I want my piece to be a mixture between traditional and avant-garde elements, I decided to start with one of the most significant components in the history of jazz music: the blues form.

My idea is that the entire form of the piece will be like one large chorus of 12-bar blues - but "stretched out", so that each of those twelve bars represents a segment of about 30 seconds or so. (I must not exceed the limit of 7 minutes playing time)

Furthermore, the root movement of the blues chord changes will be used to determine the thematic content of each section:



I think this could be an interesting form. Perhaps too much of the same in the first half...but I thought, if it works over twelve bars, it might work over six minutes as well! I added an extra A section to get a reasonable ending, but we'll see...maybe later I'll find a way to do without it.

As far as the harmonic and melodic content is concerned, it probably won't have anything to do with the blues changes, or with blues whatsoever. However, the fact that some of the original changes have a transitional, "moving" quality, while others are more static, is something I might try to reproduce.