What is the origin of the name blues?

As far as the historical origin of Bruce is concerned, it is an American folk music, which has both vocal music and instrumental music. It was introduced in the first decade of the 20th century. Although there are earlier examples (for example, Mamie's blues is about 1900), the traceable history makes it possible for Jelly Roll Morton to write "Li Jie? Lour Bruce (version1915) and W.C.Handy's works (version 19 12) Memphis blues. Its main sources are black labor songs and soul songs.

Simply put, the word blues can have several meanings: (1) refers to a sad mood or a kind of music that conveys sad mood; (2) refers to a rhyming poetic style; (3) refers to an open, adagio and secular music; (4) refers to the fixed harmonic progression pattern, which usually includes twelve bars, in the fifth and seventh bars.